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In the vast majority of large cities in the United States the unemployment rate for women exceeds that of men. In fact, that holds true for a whopping 85% of metro areas in the country. Only 7 cities have lower unemployment rates for women than for men – and Austin is one of them.
A new study by Austin-based Headlight, a workforce development website, found that we are of only a few cities in the country where the unemployment rate is lower for women than it is for men. That is a distinction we share with only 6 other cities out of the 52 sampled.
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Meanwhile, Las Vegas, Cleveland and San Diego led the other 42 metro areas with disparities as large as 2.4 percent.
The study also looked at which metro areas were improving their job markets for women. Rust Belt cities like Detroit and Milwaukee topped the ‘most improved’ list. San Francisco, meanwhile, took the unenviable position as the ‘least improved.’ San Francisco actually saw their gender unemployment gap grow by 1.3% between 2009 and 2013.
So there you have it. One more reason Austin is awesome.
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