It’s Women’s History Month and Maine was recently ranked No. 7 on WalletHub’s best states for women. The list compares the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 24 key metrics. It analyzed data ranging from median earnings for female workers to women’s preventive health to the percentage of women-owned businesses. Here’s how Maine […]
It’s Women’s History Month and Maine was recently ranked No. 7 on WalletHub’s best states for women.
The list compares the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 24 key metrics. It analyzed data ranging from median earnings for female workers to women’s preventive health to the percentage of women-owned businesses.
Here’s how Maine ranked in WalletHub’s report in some of the key metrics related to women (1=best, 25=average):
- 11th – Unemployment rate for women
- 20th – Share of women in poverty
- 23rd – Share of women-owned businesses
- 14th – High school graduation rate for women
- 2nd – Share of women who voted in 2016 presidential election
- 22nd – Female uninsured rate
- 22nd – Women’s life expectancy at birth
- 6th – Quality of women’s hospitals
- 11th – Women’s preventive health care.
In WalletHub’s comparisons:
- The District of Columbia has the highest median earnings for female workers (adjusted for cost of living), $34,417; California has the lowest, at $22,508.
- The District of Columbia also has the highest share of women who voted in the 2016 presidential election, 77.2%; Hawaii had the lowest, at 49.3%.
- New Hampshire has the lowest share of women living in poverty, 8.9%; Mississippi has the highest share, at 23.5%.
- Alaska has the highest share of women-owned businesses, 22.87%; South Dakota has the lowest share, at 14%.
- Massachusetts has the lowest female uninsured rate, 2.3%; Texas has the highest rate, at 17.5%.
- Noting that March is Women’s History Month, WalletHub reported that women only hold 23.7% of the seats in Congress despite making up 51% of the U.S. population.
Data used to create the rankings were collected from the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Educational Statistics, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Violence Policy Center, National Center for Injury Prevention, Council for Community and Economic Research, Womenable, American Express OPEN, U.S. News & World Report, Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation and WalletHub research.