WalletHub: R.I. 19th on list of best and worst states for working moms

RHODE ISLAND RANKED 19th on WalletHub's list of the best and worst states for working moms. / COURTESY WALLETHUB
RHODE ISLAND RANKED 19th on WalletHub's list of the best and worst states for working moms. / COURTESY WALLETHUB

PROVIDENCE – With Mother’s Day less than a week away, WalletHub ranked the best and worst states for working moms, placing Vermont at the top of the list and Rhode Island at No. 19.
WalletHub rated the states and the District of Columbia on their attractiveness to a working mother, studying such things as median women’s salary, female unemployment rate and day care quality rankings.

The Ocean State came in third in the subcategory of work-life balance, according to WalletHub. But in the subcategory of professional opportunities, Rhode Island ranked 32nd and even lower for child care, at No. 33.
In fact, Rhode Island ranked the lowest on the list among the New England states, which listed New Hampshire fourth, Massachusetts fifth, Maine eighth and Connecticut No. 12.
The personal finance website said that although women now comprise approximately half of the American workforce, they still earn about three-quarters as much as men do and have “far less upward mobility,” citing that less than 5 percent of Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs.
The website also studied child care costs, gender pay gaps and female-to-male ratios in the workplace.
Rhode Island ranked among the highest for child care costs as a percentage of a median women’s income, at No. 47, ahead of only Minnesota, Massachusetts, New York and the District of Columbia. Tennessee had the lowest child care costs.

Louisiana was ranked the worst state overall for working moms.

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