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Does It Pay To Be A Woman In Texas?

Todd Wiseman & Mikhail Popov/Texas Tribune

From Texas Standard:

State officials like to brag about the strong economy here and the thousands of people who move here every month. But some of the major inequities in the Texas economy are consistently underplayed, like the fact that in Texas, women don't make as much money as men who are doing the same job. One report estimates that women are paid just 79 cents for every dollar men make in Texas.

Wednesday is Women's Equality Day – and WalletHubcrunched recent World Economic Forumnumbers to find out how women fare in each U.S. state.

WalletHub’s Jill Gonzales co-wrote a report based on those numbers and stopped by the Standard to talk about how Texas compares to other states, and what we can learn from the findings.

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Emily Donahue is KUT’s news director. She has spent more than two decades in broadcast journalism and launched KUT’s news department in 2001. Previously, Emily was part of the Peabody-award winning team at Marketplace as producer of the Marketplace Morning Report. Since coming to KUT, Emily has overseen a doubling of the news staff and content, the accumulation of more than 50 local, national and international awards for journalistic excellence and served on several boards, including the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters and as a member of the 2011 Texas Association of Broadcasters Open Government Task Force. Emily lives in Austin and is currently working on her Master’s in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.