Women and The Maryland Economy

Women in the Maryland workforce account for 49% of employees. Within that number are women holding down a full-time job and also raising a family and doing caregiving for older parents or siblings. As part of the new Women and the Economy report released by State Comptroller Brooke Lierman notes other states take childcare funding more seriously…

“The Department of Childcare is in the Department of Commerce not in the state department of ed where ours is because there’s this recognition of that it is so important for workforce.”