The States Where Women Represent Most Of Minimum Wage Workers

If the states where women represent most of minimum wage workers were grouped together, we’d have, just about, the United States of America. In all but Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, and Nevada, women make up more than half of minimum wage workers. In those four states, they make up “about half,” according to a new study from the National Women’s Law Center. Nationally, women represent close to two-thirds of minimum wage workers. According to the study, six states with the highest percentages of female minimum wage workers were Alabama, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, and West Virginia, where women accounted for about seven out of ten minimum wage employees, with the exception being West Virginia. In West Virginia, closer to eight in ten minimum wage workers are women.