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Women's Earnings in
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According
to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Rhode Island women working
full-time earned a median weekly wage of $597 in 2005.
This was 77.9 percent of what full-time working males earned that
year - the 4th highest earnings ratio in New England and the 31st
highest in the country.
However, it represented a significant decline from the state’s
2004 ranking, when Rhode Island reported the 13th highest female-to-male
earnings ratio in the U.S.
In fact, 2005 marked an end to three consecutive years of
improvement in this wage differential, slipping from a peak of 81.1
percent one year earlier.
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