REPORT: Women in Florida experience higher poverty rate, more limited access to opportunity than U.S. women overall

TAMPA, Fla.  — A new county-level analysis of the status of women in Florida finds that despite top rankings in the nation on women’s business ownership, women in Florida have higher rates of poverty, lower educational attainment and lower access to health insurance coverage than women in the United States overall. The first in a series of publications, The Status of Women in Florida by County: Poverty & Opportunity was commissioned by Florida Women’s Funding Alliance (FWFA), an affinity group of Florida Philanthropic Network (FPN).