{"id":36543,"date":"2025-03-03T18:56:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T23:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=36543"},"modified":"2025-03-05T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:44:13","slug":"liz-smith-joins-wallethub-expert-panel-on-best-and-worst-states-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/liz-smith-joins-wallethub-expert-panel-on-best-and-worst-states-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Smith joins WalletHub expert panel on &#8216;Best and Worst States for Women&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/elizabeth-smith\/\">Liz Smith<\/a>, a professor of politics and international affairs and assistant faculty director of the Cothran Center, joined a panel of experts to weigh in on <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-and-worst-states-for-women\/10728#expert=Elizabeth_S._Smith\">WalletHub&#8217;s<\/a> survey about the &#8220;Best and Worst States for Women.&#8221; Smith responded to questions about key factors for choosing a state home, what a state-level policy agenda should include, issues concerning equal pay and reproductive rights, and what companies can do to improve the workplace environment for women. For the latter, she said, &#8220;Company policies that improve workplace conditions for women also improve workplace conditions for men.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s Liz Smith offers her insights on what makes states attractive for women in a WalletHub survey of the U.S. and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":30316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,6,32,2284],"tags":[3285,3286,3284,3287],"class_list":["post-36543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cothran-center-for-vocational-reflection","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-wallethub","tag-equal-pay","tag-reproductive-rights","tag-state-policy","tag-workplace-dynamics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36551,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36543\/revisions\/36551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}