Ladies looking for the best place to live, work, and play may want to check out WalletHub's latest rankings, which susses out which states are the best for women, in terms of jobs, health, safety, and more. The site looked at more than 180 of the nation's largest cities, reviewing 15 metrics in two main categories: women's economic and social well-being, which includes everything from earnings and a city's unemployment rate for female workers to the share of women-owned companies; and women's health care and safety, which encompasses local abortion policies, quality of women's hospitals, share of physically active women, and more. The Maryland city of Columbia ranks No. 1, but most of the cities in the top 10 are on the West Coast:
Best Cities:
- Columbia, Maryland
- Fremont, California
- Huntington Beach, California
- Irvine, California
- San Francisco
- Santa Clarita, California
- Washington, DC
- Juneau, Alaska
- Seattle
- Scottsdale, Arizona (No. 1 in "Women"s Economic & Social Well-Being" category)
Worst Cities:
- Columbus, Georgia
- Lubbock, Texas
- Akron, Ohio
- Laredo, Texas
- Huntington, West Virginia
- Shreveport, Louisiana
- Augusta, Georgia
- Brownsville, Texas (last in "Women"s Health Care & Safety" category)
- Gulfport, Mississippi
- Jackson, Mississippi (last in "Women"s Economic & Social Well-Being" category)
See how other cities ranked
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best states for women.)
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