How Montana Women Fare: Economic, Social, And Safety Insights

Montana may be home to the first woman to hold federal office but a new study shows that living in Montana is just "okay" for women.

Other recent studies about Montana women showed some interesting findings:

Montana Women and Housing

More Montana single women own homes than single men (12.21% vs 11.58% according to census data).

Montanan Women and Marriage

Women in Montana are older when they get married for the first time (27.9) than women in neighboring states.

The latest study about Montana women reviewed economic and social well-being, and health care and safety rankings.

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WalletHub looked at nearly a dozen variables that contributed to the broader category of economic and social well-being including things like:

median earnings
unemployment rate
friendliness toward working moms

Montana ranked 20th overall in this category.

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The healthcare and safety rankings were also broken down into just over a dozen categories with variables like:

Preventive Health Care
Obesity
Homicide rates

Montana ranked 21st overall in healthcare and safety.

With a 20th and 21st ranking, it follows that Montana's overall ranking in this study is 21st. Slightly above average, but basically in the middle. It would be fair to say there's room for improvement.

One way to support Montana women's economic and social well-being is to frequent local women-owned businesses. For example, Kelly Clarkson helped a Montana woman-owned business when she had the editor of Montana Woman Magazine on her show. You can also support Montana women's healthcare and safety by donating to women's organizations during Missoula Gives which will be May 2-3 this year.

LOOK: Milestones in women's history from the year you were born

Women have left marks on everything from entertainment and music to space exploration, athletics, and technology. Each passing year and new milestone makes it clear both how recent this history-making is in relation to the rest of the country, as well as how far we still need to go. The resulting timeline shows that women are constantly making history worthy of best-selling biographies and classroom textbooks; someone just needs to write about them.

Scroll through to find out when women in the U.S. and around the world won rights, the names of women who shattered the glass ceiling, and which country's women banded together to end a civil war.

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