Comptroller Reports On Women in Workforce

The Maryland Comptroller’s Office recently released a report on impacts of women on the state’s economy. The first-of-its-kind report offers data on women in the workforce as well highlighting gaps in wages between men and women. Women make up 51% of the Maryland’s population. The report identifies policy areas such as childcare that according to Maryland Women’s Commission Director Ariana Kelly, keep women from workforce participation…

“We need to figure out how to treat childcare and elder care as an important part of our economy, of the economic structure that we live in. The same way we treat transportation and public safety and education.”