R.I. third in gender-equality leadership ranking, eighth in gender-equality ranking

RHODE ISLAND ranked third best in the nation in the Bloomberg News U.S. Gender-Equality Leadership Ranking. / COURTESY BLOOMBERG
RHODE ISLAND ranked third best in the nation in the Bloomberg News U.S. Gender-Equality Leadership Ranking. / COURTESY BLOOMBERG

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island ranked third in the annual Bloomberg News U.S. Gender-Equality Leadership Ranking and eighth in its U.S. Gender-Equality Ranking.
Leadership rankings reflect women on corporate boards and in state legislatures, advanced degrees, six-figure salaries and business ownership, while the gender-equality rankings scored states on male-female median pay ratios, female labor-force participation, education, health coverage and poverty, Bloomberg said Wednesday.
Rhode Island jumped 14 spots to No. 3 in the Leadership Ranking due to higher percentages of women directors and business owners.
Maryland again took the top spot in the Leadership Ranking, while Vermont was No. 1 in the Gender-Equality Ranking, moving up one spot from last year.
Maryland, Bloomberg said, continues to benefit from being close to three other state capitals and the federal government. It also had the highest corporate-governance score based on female directors at large companies and percentage of top women executives.
Massachusetts was No. 2 in the Leadership Ranking, moving up five spots from last year, thanks to General Electric Co.’s announcement it would relocate its corporate headquarters to Boston from Fairfield, Conn., boosting the corporate governance score.
Mississippi and North Dakota stayed at the bottom as No. 49 and No. 50 in this ranking.
On the Gender-Equality ranking, Vermont topped the list because it reduced to 11.1 percent from 13.5 percent the number of women living below the poverty line; the percentage-point change was the largest of any state. The share of women with college degrees also rose, along with the gender pay ratio.
Mississippi and Louisiana remained at the bottom of the gender-equality ranking, due to having the worst poverty scores.
“The gender gap is highest among people with children,” David Harding, associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, said in a statement. “Men with children are rewarded in the labor market; women with children are penalized.”

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  1. Do these rankings also include our allowing men to Pee in the Little Girls Room…or strip down naked in the Woman’s Locker Room?

    Please Don’t be offended…just asking.

    It is an issue????