Recent research shows that a woman’s lifelong earnings and how much she works are influenced by the levels of sexism in the state where she was born. This means that a woman born in the Deep South is likely to face a much wider economic gender gap than a woman born on the Pacific Coast, even if both women move to New York as adults. This suggests that when women are exposed to sexist attitudes early in life, it affects them forever.
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