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Report Shows Women Have Advanced

A new report shows the education and economic status of women in North Carolina has improved dramatically in recent decades.

Leoneda Inge: Preliminary findings in the 2012 “Status of Women in North Carolina” report show women have more Associate Degrees, Bachelor’s Degrees and graduate degrees than men. Beth Briggs is executive director of the North Carolina Council for Women.

Beth Briggs:  And if you look at the freshman class in a lot of these universities, significantly higher in women, and they’re competitive. So I think that the universities are choosing not based on gender, but based on competition and grades and women are being selected to higher level because their grades are better.

The report also shows full-time, working women across the state make more money now, but they still lag behind men – women make about seven thousand dollars less. And white women still make more money than women in other ethnic groups.

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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