Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
The Utah Women's Health Review
Volume
1
Issue
1
Publisher
University of Utah
Publication Date
12-19-2019
First Page
128
Last Page
136
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Abstract
Several national reports earlier in the past decade ranked Utah last or near last in terms of women being in positions of decision making and leadership, including a 2013 Center for American Progress report titled “The State of Women in America: A 50-State Analysis of How Women Are Faring Across the Nation” (Chu & Posner, 2013). These and other rankings most often use the following four criteria: 1) gender wage gap, 2) educational attainment, 3) women in management roles, and 4) women serving in state legislatures. Research released through the Utah Women & Leadership Project and the Utah Women & Edu-cation Initiative has also confirmed that Utah has been below the national average in these areas (see http://www.uvu.edu/uwlp/research/briefs.html), although more recently, some improvement has been seen (McCann, 2019).
Recommended Citation
Madsen, S. R., & D. Candice Pierucci (2019). The status of women in Utah Politics: Counties, mayors, city councils, and boards of education. The Utah women’s Health Review, 1(1), 128-136.
