The report includes an index of the best states for working women which analyzes wages, worker protections including paid leave, equal pay and pregnancy accommodations, and the right to organize.
Oregon ranks first, followed by California and New York. While the same five states occupy the top spots as in 2020, Oregon’s jump from fifth to first is due to an incremental rise in the minimum wage and the new inclusion of unemployment payments in this year’s index. In Oregon, average unemployment payments for someone working a full-time minimum wage job covers 21% of the cost of living , more than most states offer.
Southern states fall at the bottom of the list: North Carolina is last with Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi finishing just ahead.* This year’s bottom five states are also the same as in 2020, having done nothing to improve policies for workers during the pandemic. All states in the bottom five have minimum wages set at the federal minimum of $7.25, none mandates paid leave, and none except South Carolina provides pregnancy accommodations or protection against sexual harassment.
Virginia, however, which was at the bottom of the index in 2019, made a huge leap in 2021 to the top half of the index, landing at 23. According to the report, the enormous improvement is a direct result of communities and workers organizing to encourage Virginia’s legislature and Governor Ralph Northam to provide protections for domestic workers, expand accommodations for pregnant workers, bolster protections against sexual harassment, and increase its minimum wage.
“Virginia offers a vitally important example of how much power lies in organized workers to influence state lawmakers and elected officials to invest in the wellbeing and dignity of workers in their state,” says Kaitlyn Henderson, Senior Researcher at Oxfam America. “Nearly all workers fare better with more robust wages, rights to organize, and protections in the workplace, whether that be in a field, a plant, an office, or a private home.
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