{"id":5552,"date":"2012-03-12T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2012-03-12T15:18:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T21:18:52","slug":"in-boise-womens-wages-are-among-nations-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/12\/in-boise-womens-wages-are-among-nations-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"In Boise, Women&#8217;s Wages Are Among Nation&#8217;s Worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_385\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Storm clouds roil over downtown Boise.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/09\/9-22-Boise-Under-Clouds.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-385\" title=\"9-22 Boise Under Clouds\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/09\/9-22-Boise-Under-Clouds-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/09\/9-22-Boise-Under-Clouds-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/09\/9-22-Boise-Under-Clouds-220x146.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/09\/9-22-Boise-Under-Clouds.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Nicholas D. \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Storm clouds roll through downtown Boise.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This truth still holds: women earn less than men.\u00a0 Despite decades of improvement, women who work full-time and year-round earn about 77 percent as much as similarly employed men.\u00a0 Where do women fare the worst?\u00a0 Financial news and commentary site 24\/7 Wall Street has compiled <a href=\"http:\/\/247wallst.com\/2012\/03\/07\/the-worst-paying-cities-for-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">a ranking<\/a> of the cities where women are paid the least.\u00a0 The Boise metro area earns a spot on that unfortunate list, coming in eighth.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis, based on U.S. Census data, shows that the median income for women in the Boise area is $32,514.\u00a0 That&#8217;s compared to a median of $44,908 for men.<\/p>\n<p>The Huffington Post has built a slideshow from the findings.\u00a0 Take a look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/03\/08\/international-women-day-cities-pay-women-least_n_1332790.html#s766256&amp;title=8_Boise_CityNampa\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This truth still holds: women earn less than men.\u00a0 Despite decades of improvement, women who work full-time and year-round earn about 77 percent as much as similarly employed men.\u00a0 Where do women fare the worst?\u00a0 Financial news and commentary site 24\/7 Wall Street has compiled a ranking of the cities where women are paid the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[233,143],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}