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Utah Valley University professor Susan Madsen has been focusing for several years now on helping more women graduate from college and helping more girls…
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This is a unique moment for Utah. Five colleges and universities in the state now have women presidents, several for the first time. These institutions…
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It happens every day – in a hospital, in a car, at home – babies are born. Almost 4 million babies were born in 2016 in the U.S., that’s nearly 11,000…
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As part of UPR’s Women 20/20 series, we applaud the women of Utah who have chipped away at barriers to jobs previously done only by men. We look back at a…
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In 1920, the 19th Amendment extended voting rights to women. As the 100th anniversary of the amendment approaches, one organization is creating classroom…
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Record numbers of women are running for office and engaged in the political process this year. We’ll ask why? And is this temporary or a lasting trend?…
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So you’re driving down I-15, casually looking around at the terrain, the other cars, other drivers. You glance inside the cab of the semi-truck you’re…
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Can you name a famous woman scientist? Can you name two? “I don’t think so.”“Yeah, there were some females that were involved in discovering nuclear…
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According to the National Women’s Law Center, women in Utah make on average 70 cents for every dollar a man makes doing the same job, resulting in Utah…
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In 2015 the Institutes for Women's Policy Research released a fact sheet outlining the well-being of women in Utah. A similar fact sheet was released in…