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The well-being of women is often evaluated only through economic and political lenses. From this vantage point, women opting out of full-time employment (during years of caring for young children, for instance), counts strongly against appraisals of women’s well-being.
For example, WalletHub’s 2025 assessment of Best and Worst States for Women’s Equality has ranked Utah in last place. (WalletHub ranks each state according to the differences between men and women across a variety of metrics, such as employment rate, earnings, and math scores.) As a woman who works part-time from home, I’m adding to the statistics pulling us down.
We should be vigilant about discrimination against women. If women are working less or being paid less than men because they’re being denied opportunities or facing bias, that’s a problem we should all care about. When women are deprived of fair compensation, it hurts their dependents as well as themselves, and it implies that their contributions are less valuable — which is untrue.
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