A smaller percentage of women are working in Clark County than across the Columbia River in Multnomah County, Ore.
That’s according to an ECOnorthwest study recently released by the Portland Metro Chamber. U.S. Census Bureau data seems to back that up, at least in part. The latest American Community Survey numbers estimated 81.2 percent of women worked in Multnomah County in 2024, compared with 75.5 percent of women in Clark County.
The percentage of women working in Clark County dropped depending on whether they had young children, the data showed…