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Health & Wealth Update
7:05 am
Wed March 21, 2012
Report highlights gender gap in health, work, and politics
Credit Jacob Fenston / KBIA
Women's Policy Alliance board members, from left to right: Kristin Metcalf-Wilson, Margaret Eaton, and Carolyn Sullivan
Sixty-two percent of working-age women have jobs, but they still earn just 74 cents on the dollar, compared to men. But that disparity varies by region; in some rural counties, women earn fully half what men do. In this week's Health & Wealth update, a new report on how women in Missouri are faring in health, work, education, and civic engagement. With a state legislature that's three-quarters men, will lawmakers do anything about the disparities?