Women march through the streets of San Antonio in 2022 to protest the state automatically banning abortion after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Credit: Jaime Monzon

The Texas economy might be booming, but it sure does suck to be a woman here.

It’s not necessary to point to a study to back up that painfully obvious point,  especially since the state’s abortion ban applies even in cases where a mother’s life could be at risk. Just the same, a new study dropped recently, so we might as well share the details.

Texas ranked as the eighth-worst state to be a woman in a recent analysis by online finance blog WalletHub.

WalletHub ranked the states and the District of Columbia on their women-friendliness by comparing 25 metrics, among them median earnings for female workers, women’s access to preventive healthcare and the female homicide rate.

Texas had the seventh-highest rate of women residents without health insurance, according to the study. It’s also among the states with the highest percentage of women living in poverty.

While the Lone Star State’s rankings were dismal overall, it was above average when it comes to the median earnings for women workers and share of women-owned businesses.

The worst U.S. state for woman is Oklahoma, according to WalletHub. Mississippi and Louisiana came in as the second- and third-worst, respectively.

In contrast, Vermont ranked as the best state for women, followed by New York and Massachusetts, which took the No. 2 and No. 3 spots.

Of the top 10 best states for women, all but one, Vermont, had a Democrat as its governor. In contrast, the top 10 worst states for women, with the exception of Louisiana, had Republican governors. Looking at you, Gov. Greg Abbott.

Although given the GOP’s increasing slide into extreme ideology, that last factoid probably should come as little surprise.

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This article appears in Feb 22 – Mar 7, 2023.

Michael Karlis is a multimedia journalist at the San Antonio Current, whose coverage in print and on social media focuses on local and state politics. He is a graduate of American University in Washington,...