As Geoff Pender reported earlier this month, Mississippi is the only state without an equal pay law. And his analysis found that compared to the rest of the country, Mississippi’s gender pay gap is higher than the national average of 19%. According to the American Association of University Women, women in the Magnolia State earn 23% less of what men earn, which translates to a rank of 41 out of 51 states and 13 out of the 17 Southern states.

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Data: What do Southern women earn compared to men in 2021?

by Nigel Dent, Mississippi Today
October 23, 2021

<h1>Data: What do Southern women earn compared to men in 2021?</h1> <p class="byline">by Nigel Dent, Mississippi Today <br />October 23, 2021</p> <br /> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://cdn.mississippitoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/06174829/data-dive-FINAL-logo-04-1-2-1200x302.png" alt="" class="wp-image-1017047" /></figure> <p>As <a href="https://mississippitoday.org/2021/10/11/mississippi-women-equal-pay/">Geoff Pender reported</a> earlier this month, Mississippi is the only state without an equal pay law. And his analysis found that compared to the rest of the country, Mississippi's gender pay gap is higher than the national average of 19%. According to the <a href="https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/gender-pay-gap-by-state/">American Association of University Women</a>, women in the Magnolia State earn 23% less of what men earn, which translates to a rank of <strong>41</strong> out of <strong>51 states</strong> and <strong>13</strong> out of the <strong>17 Southern states.</strong></p> <p>View our data illustrating the varying gender pay gap in the Southern United States:</p> <p>!function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r&lt;t.length;r++){if(t[r].contentWindow===e.source)t[r].style.height=e.data[&quot;datawrapper-height&quot;][a]+&quot;px&quot;}}}))}();</p> <p><strong>READ MORE:</strong></p> <p>• <a href="https://mississippitoday.org/2021/10/11/mississippi-women-equal-pay/">Will Mississippi continue to short-change women on equal pay?</a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://mississippitoday.org/2021/10/23/gender-pay-gap-in-the-south/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://mississippitoday.org&quot;&gt;Mississippi Today&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.&lt;img src=&quot;https://cdn.mississippitoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/06074517/MT_icon-logo-favicon-1-200x200.png&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://mississippitoday.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=1017044&amp;amp;ga4=G-VSX4B701MS&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://mississippitoday.org/2021/10/23/gender-pay-gap-in-the-south/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/mississippitoday.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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