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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:

2016 MIND THE GAP REPORT RANKINGS FOR ECONOMIC AUTONOMY

RANK

STATE

FEMALE POPULATION*

PROPORTION OF TOTAL POPULATION*

#1

1,971,093

54.4%

#2

5,725,807

54.8%

#3

2,138,995

56.2%

#3

1,357,355

57.6%

#3

1,910,050

56.7%

#6

3,695,066

51.4%

#6

2,306,300

46.2%

#8

2,586,400

54.5%

#8

2,560,312

44.3%

#10

1,582,919

51.3%

#11

2,608,370

50.8%

#11

2,756,631

51.3%

#11

1,430,758

48.9%

#11

1,563,951

49.5%

#11

2,614,598

51.3%

#16

3,361,990

52.4%

#16

2,990,947

52.7%

#18

3,654,092

54.5%

#18

1,390,123

56%

#20

2,753,513

47.5%

#20

1,882,608

48.2%

#20

1,153,744

48%

#20

1,739,725

53.8%

#20

2,714,626

49.5%

#20

1,871,180

54.4%

#26

4,021,828

47%

#26

2,560,351

49.3%

#28

2,195,595

51.6%

#28

2,271,254

47.8%

#30

5,905,280

51.4%

#30

1,891,333

54.3%

#30

1,671,845

47.4%

#33

1,864,674

55%

#33

2,492,536

55.5%

#33

1,168,191

52.3%

#36

1,322,158

55.8%

#37

2,596,948

52.7%

* - 2015 Estimates

Source:
National Bureau of Statistics
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