Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Utah Women & Leadership Project White Paper

Volume

11

Publisher

Utah Women & Leadership Project

Publication Date

1-7-2025

First Page

1

Last Page

41

Abstract

During the fall of 2023, Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) researchers conducted a statewide study to establish a baseline for public perceptions related to the awareness, understanding, and attitudes about challenges that Utah women and girls face. In early 2024, we published 20 short research summaries1 that shared the results of this comprehensive study. Then, in the fall of 2024, we administered this survey, with slight changes, around the state of Utah for the second time. This is the first of six white papers to share the results of the new data.

Overall, this comprehensive study was designed to support the efforts of A Bolder Way Forward (BWF), which is a statewide initiative focused on ensuring that more Utah girls, women, and their families thrive. Each area of focus (imagine the areas as spokes on a wheel) has bold goals with data-driven metrics to measure progress on shifts in public awareness, understanding, and/or attitudes related to each spoke.

The following lists the five overarching categories within BWF and the 18 spokes included in this research:

  1. Education: Finance, Higher Education Attainment, and K–12 Initiatives
  2. Community Engagement: Political Representation, Boards and Commissions, and Civic Engagement/Advocacy
  3. Safety and Security: Child Sexual Abuse, Domestic Violence, Poverty and Homelessness, Sexual Assault, and Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Discrimination
  4. Health and Wellbeing: Health Across the Lifespan, and Home and Family
  5. Workplace: Childcare/Pre-K Programs, Entrepreneurship, Gender Pay Gap, Leadership Development, Organizational Strategies and Workplace Culture, STEM Fields, and Workforce Development

This report covers elements of three spokes in the Workplace category (i.e., Organizational Strategies and Workplace Culture, Childcare/Pre-K Programs, and Gender Pay Gap), as well as one spoke in the Safety and Security category (i.e., Sexual Harassment and Gender-based Discrimination), which also applies to the workplace. The results of the other Workplace spokes are included in the second white paper in this 2025 series. We first discuss foundational research methods for the study as a whole, then share the 2024 findings of the four areas of focus mentioned above and include both the applicable quantitative and qualitative results.

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