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Women's share of employed workers: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Women's share of employed workers (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Women's share of jobs by occupation group by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 48.4 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 52.6 %
RI 49.2 %
DE 50.8 %
CT 49.4 %
NJ 48.8 %
MD 50.2 %
MA 49.8 %
VT 49.5 %
NH 48.4 %

Lowest: 45.1 to 47.4 %
Group 2: 47.4 to 48.2 %
Group 3: 48.2 to 48.8 %
Group 4: 48.8 to 49.5 %
Highest: 49.5 to 52.6 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	District of Columbia	52.6
2	Delaware	50.8
3	Maryland	50.2
4	Hawaii	49.8
4	Louisiana	49.8
4	Massachusetts	49.8
7	Mississippi	49.7
8	Georgia	49.6
8	Maine	49.6
8	South Carolina	49.6
11	New York	49.5
11	Vermont	49.5
13	Connecticut	49.4
14	Virginia	49.3
15	North Carolina	49.2
15	Rhode Island	49.2
17	Missouri	49
18	Alabama	48.9
19	Florida	48.8
19	New Jersey	48.8
19	Pennsylvania	48.8
22	Illinois	48.7
22	Minnesota	48.7
24	New Mexico	48.6
25	Oregon	48.5
26	Arkansas	48.4
26	New Hampshire	48.4
26	Ohio	48.4
29	Tennessee	48.3
30	Michigan	48.2
30	Montana	48.2
30	Wisconsin	48.2
33	Indiana	48.1
34	Kansas	48
34	West Virginia	48
36	Kentucky	47.9
37	Iowa	47.6
37	Nebraska	47.6
39	California	47.5
39	Colorado	47.5
41	Arizona	47.4
41	Oklahoma	47.4
41	Wyoming	47.4
44	South Dakota	47.3
44	Washington	47.3
46	Nevada	47.2
47	Texas	47
48	North Dakota	46.3
49	Alaska	46.1
50	Utah	45.4
51	Idaho	45.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S2401: Occupation by Sex for the Civilian Employed Population 16 Years and Over. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by women's share of employed workers (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S2401; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-womens-share-of-employed-workers/

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