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Report: To Reach Educational Attainment Goals, Student Parents Must be Reengaged in Higher Education
Report: To Reach Educational Attainment Goals, Student Parents Must be Reengaged in Higher Education

Report: To Reach Educational Attainment Goals, Student Parents Must be Reengaged in Higher Education

by Sarah Wood To meet workforce demands, two national educational attainment goals have been introduced over the last decade. In 2008, the Lumina Foundation pushed to achieve a 60% completion rate for post-secondary credentials and [...]

July 9, 2021|Tags: Degree Attainment, Diverse Education, Student Parents|

Fact-Checking Utah’s Reputation As the Worst State for Women’s Equality
Fact-Checking Utah’s Reputation As the Worst State for Women’s Equality

Fact-Checking Utah’s Reputation As the Worst State for Women’s Equality

By Becky Jacobs Utah is routinely labeled as the worst state for women’s equality, and that ranking is often due to these factors in the lives of women who live here: They earn less, due [...]

July 7, 2021|Tags: Employment and Earnings Index, Gender Wage Gap, The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah|

Knowing What Your Co-Worker Makes Doesn’t Close the Pay Gap
Knowing What Your Co-Worker Makes Doesn’t Close the Pay Gap

Knowing What Your Co-Worker Makes Doesn’t Close the Pay Gap

By Emma Goldberg Carolyn Kopprasch earns $225,000 a year. Maria Thomas makes $267,890. Then comes Darcy Peters with a salary of $105,143. That information, taken in before I exchange pleasantries with these women, feels almost [...]

July 1, 2021|Tags: COVID-19, Pandemic, Pay Transparency, The New York Times, Wage Gap|

How Retail’s Lack of Gender Diversity and Representation in Leadership Roles is Hurting Profitability—In an Industry Where Just 12% of CEOs are Women
How Retail’s Lack of Gender Diversity and Representation in Leadership Roles is Hurting Profitability—In an Industry Where Just 12% of CEOs are Women

How Retail’s Lack of Gender Diversity and Representation in Leadership Roles is Hurting Profitability—In an Industry Where Just 12% of CEOs are Women

By Bethany Biron When Rosalind Brewer was appointed as CEO of Walgreens in March, she became not just the only Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company, but also one of the few women in [...]

June 30, 2021|Tags: Business Insider, Occupation Inequality, Occupational Wage Gap, Women CEOs|

Utah Gets a C- on Women’s Wages and Employment Compared to Other States
Utah Gets a C- on Women’s Wages and Employment Compared to Other States

Utah Gets a C- on Women’s Wages and Employment Compared to Other States

By Lindsay Aerts A new report ranking women’s wages and employment compared to other states gave Utah a C-minus grade. But one local researcher says she’s encouraged by this ranking. “Utah has a C minus. [...]

June 23, 2021|Tags: KSL News Radio, Status of Women in the States, Utah, Women in the Workforce|

Susan R. Madsen: Utah Women Making Economic Progress
Susan R. Madsen: Utah Women Making Economic Progress

Susan R. Madsen: Utah Women Making Economic Progress

By Susan R. Madsen Across the country, schools have come to a close and, for better or worse, students’ grades have been posted. Similarly the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington, D.C., has just [...]

June 23, 2021|Tags: Status of Women in the States, The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah, Women in the Workforce|

Report: To Reach Educational Attainment Goals, Student Parents Must be Reengaged in Higher Education

Fact-Checking Utah’s Reputation As the Worst State for Women’s Equality

Knowing What Your Co-Worker Makes Doesn’t Close the Pay Gap

How Retail’s Lack of Gender Diversity and Representation in Leadership Roles is Hurting Profitability—In an Industry Where Just 12% of CEOs are Women

Utah Gets a C- on Women’s Wages and Employment Compared to Other States

Susan R. Madsen: Utah Women Making Economic Progress

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