What will it take to create real, strategic change for women in Ohio? We've identified 5 key policy strategies

1. Julie Graber
The Institute on Women

2. Educational Attainment
• Only 24% of Ohio’s
women have four or
more years of college
• Ohio continues to
languish in the
bottom 12 states for
educational
attainment
• US Average for
women: 27.8%

3. Educational Attainment
– It takes four or more years of college (or the
equivalent) to increase the median earnings of
women in Ohio to exceed the median earnings of
men with a high school diploma ($38,500 vs.
$33,000)
Men with HS: $32,700 Women with HS: $21,000
Men with BS/BA: $56,000 Women with BS/BA: $38,500
– Four or more years of college reduces the rate of
poverty among women from 14% to 3.9%

4. POVERTY RATE IN OHIO

5. Occupational Segregation
• Women represent the majority of the employees in 7 out of Ohio's 10
largest occupations.
• Of the nine occupations which do not meet the annual self-
sufficiency standard, women are the majority of employees in 6 of
them.
• Of the 2010 top 20 leading occupations in the U.S. for women, 16 out
of 20, or 80%, of them do not meet the standard.

6. Income Comparisons

7. Policy Advocacy
• Paid Sick Leave Days • Accessible, Affordable,
– 8 in 10 low-wage Available Childcare
workers have no sick – Restore eligibility in
leave benefits Ohio to 150% of poverty
– Women are less likely – Provide benefits when
than men to have paid jobless and for
sick leave – even educational activities
though 80% of moms – Create a step-down
handle family health policy as wages improve
care

8. Women in the Ohio Legislature

9. Women in Corporate Leadership
Central
Ohio
Ohio
US
Public
companies
F1000
public
headquartered
in
companies
Columbus
MSA
headquartered
in
F500
(28)
Ohio
(54)
(497)
Women
on
Boards
13.7%
16.2%
16.1%
Female
Execu@ve
Officers
13%
12.2%
14.1%
Companies
with
No
Female
Board
Members
9
(32%)
6
(11%)
11%
Companies
with
No
Female
Execu@ve
Officers
13
(46%)
17
(31%)
27.4%