Pennsylvania’s high-powered business engine is working more for men than for women, and new WalletHub rankings suggest where the state can get to work to improve its gender inequality, especially for working moms.

Pennsylvania ranked 38th nationwide behind the District of Columbia and ahead of New York in the credit and finance website’s review of 13 weighted metrics focused on key issues for working moms, including child care, professional opportunities and work-life balance.

And all three appear to need significant improvement; individually, the state came in 36th for child care, 35th for professional opportunities and 33rd for work-life balance.

“Women today comprise nearly half of the American workforce, and solo moms with young children are forced to work at a higher rate than their married counterparts. Yet women still earn only $0.79 for every dollar that men make and have far less upward mobility, as evidenced by the fact that only 4 percent of S&P 500 companies’ chief executives are female,” John S. Kiernan wrote in explaining WalletHub’s analysis.

“Such obvious inequality has spawned a great deal of debate about gender roles in a shifting socioeconomic environment.”

So what are Pennsylvania’s next steps to get to work for working moms? Villanova University Assistant Professor Katina Sawyer weighed in.

“I think that companies can offer family-friendly benefits like on-site childcare, flexible work schedules, floating holidays, and pooled PTO and sick days,” she said in the article.

“However, I also think that organizations need to address the issue of gender bias and stereotypes dead on — they need to create an understanding that women may be facing unique challenges at home that may cause them to have to shuffle their work around more creatively or to multi-task when necessary. When companies truly honor that we, as citizens, have a responsibility to support good, strong family units (the parents of our future employees!), they begin to recognize that work and life are really mutually sustaining.”

Read more about the working mom rankings and other expert opinions on WalletHub here.