We The Women
Texas Ranks Second to Last in the Country for Women Equality
By La Prensa Texas staff · Mar 12, 2026
Read in the original edition on IssuuWomen have come a long way in the United States since they won the right to vote in 1920. Today, women work, run businesses, lead organizations, and hold public office. But even with all that progress, equality is still not where it should be. A recent national study ranked all 50 states on how equal things are for women. Texas ranked 49th! The study looked at things like pay differences between men and women, leadership jobs, education, health access, and how many women serve in government.
Even though women make up more than half the population, they still hold only about 28% of elected offices and about one-third of major corporate board seats. Texas has a lot of strong, hardworking women raising families, building businesses, and serving their communities. The question is whether the system around them is giving them the same opportunities. Do you think women are treated equally in Texas? Or do we still have work to do?
If so, where do we start? Let’s talk about it…
Let's talk about it: what our community said
Printed replies from readers on our page-2 conversation.
“It's really not a question about whether or not women are receiving the same opportunities or not. Men and women were never meant to be "equals" in the sociological and physiological sense that the "woke" ideology screams at us on mass media since the inception of the recent feminist and gay rights movements. Which if you haven't been paying attention, is all by design from the government. It's a psyop just like antifa, blm, and the rest of all these so-called "movements". With the sole design and purpose to break up the traditional family until and create single parent homes(mainly single mother households) with the likelihood that the next generation will be either gay or just too "mothered" to be a valuable member of society..sure all these women you speak of are doing great things in the business world, ...but if you look that their personal lives it's in shambles. Why?? Because that's not the way the rule of god was meant to be. My eldest stepsister. Perfect example..she's 54. She's a senior executive at usaa makes six figures, ...but she's divorced, she's a single mother, a son who has all kinds of sociopathic issues because he's a mama's boy and he's torn between his mom and his dad. He has failure to launch type issues. Sure she's "successful" but at what cost??.. I don't think she's "happy".. I believe she wishes she would've just married a blue collar guy and was a housewife instead. Women were never meant to be in those types of roles. Men are supposed to be in those types of roles. This whole "equality" thing everyone is so hung up on, was incited by the government. Designed to have men and women in constant competition with one another rather than being two natural hormonal energies coming together harmoniously to create life.. people forget that when it comes down to basic biology..that's all our purpose really is.. to procreate. Since the dawn of time.. men hunt and gather. Provide and protect.. women are the earth, the bare the children, ...nurture, tend to the garden and the homestead. Men work the land, tend to the livestock. Organize townships and communities and fight if necessary. That's how society was BUILT, ...now it's going in the opposite direction and you can see the repercussions of it. Just look at this vast majority of young males who have absolutely no skills. Can't change a car tire, let alone build a freakin house, ...and the young women..wjat do they all do?? Either they're single mother working women like my stepsister.. or they make their living selling their body online, ...and meanwhile, ...who suffers.. the children, ...that's who. Because they never get the structure of the father/mother dynamic at home..it is not right for children to be growing up in single parent households.”
David Patteson
“God bless Trump and God bless ICE and God bless Turning Point USA and God bless Israel. 3 more years then Vance and Rubio. Praise God!”
Frank Kreusel
“Frank Kreusel I don't know about all that, ...but definitely praise God.”
David Patteson
“OMG YOU GUYS! THAT'S NOT WHAT she asked”
Stacie Jo Reyes
“There are many women out there who have succeeded in their quests for some form of equality. Women who look towards the future while still young will surely fulfill their goals in life. The thing that causes obstacles for women is the fact that they can bear children. A woman is the family nurturer and primary caregiver. I don't think that role has changed drastically. Women have accomplished many goals in spite of being the primary nurturer. Yeah, there could be more changes made to man versus woman. Many women are intelligent, bold, driven, and self confident to climb the ladder of success. I believe women are currently given the same opportunities for success as men. How in the world did women become so hateful and nasty with vile language as spewed by a Texas Representative. Respect for a man or woman is surely controlled by who you are and how you conduct yourself. That kind of respect is what gives power for success to both men and women.”
Yolanda Centennial
“We have so much to be proud of in Texas, from our strong women leaders to our thriving businesses, but it's clear we still have so much to learn about equality and fairness for all”
Anastacia Lopez
“Power to women. My Mom is my hero”
Jesse Ramos
“Libtard Study and Libtard news outlet what do you expect? Curtis Smith; “What a bunch of bull!”
Bruce Monroe
“So what you're saying is there is another state far worse?”
Alexandra Farrae
“Blame the republicans”
Paul R Cervantes