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Women’s well-being relative to men’s is an important link between gender and poverty. Women, irrespective of any kind of living arrangement they find themselves, should have the empowerment, including economic empowerment, to do what they want as active economic agents and to influence their own well-being and that of their families.

The states were ranked on the following:

2020 MIND THE GAP REPORT RANKINGS FOR ECONOMIC AUTONOMY

RANK

STATE

FEMALE POPULATION*

PROPORTION OF TOTAL POPULATION*

#1

1,974,332

55.9%

#2

2,258,444

58.1%

#2

2,526,449

47%

#2

1,448,461

59.2%

#5

2,016,822

55.5%

#5

1,864,761

54.7%

#7

2,562,975

45.4%

#7

3,902,903

55.8%

#9

2,921,563

42.3%

#10

1,720,950

49.3%

#10

1,871,745

46.4%

#12

2,752,772

55.8%

#13

6,212,434

55.3%

#14

2,385,531

51.9%

#15

2,973,862

49.2%

#16

1,555,822

48.9%

#17

2,877,924

50.6%

#17

2,044,612

49.6%

#17

4,029,147

51.6%

#20

3,263,362

53%

#20

1,968,398

56.4%

#22

1,284,487

47%

#23

2,807,748

53.3%

#23

1,491,952

56.9%

#23

3,686,148

52.5%

#26

2,872,722

51.3%

#27

2,644,133

57.2%

#28

4,521,897

45.9%

#28

6,492,104

51.1%

#30

3,050,638

51%

#31

3,071,957

46.5%

#31

2,823,517

49%

#31

1,400,709

57.4%

#34

2,067,622

47.5%

#35

2,012,653

58.7%

#36

1,264,017

52.9%

#37

2,108,188

55.7%

* - 2018 Estimates

Source:
National Bureau of Statistics
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