The state of Utah women on Access Utah

By Tom Williams

Published July 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM MDT

Three people with long hair face toward the sunset with arms high in the air.

We check in with Susan Madsen, director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project, about what research shows about Utah women's health, finances, and work lives. Susan Madsen is also a professor of organizational leadership in the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

We talk about the following reports from the Utah Women & Leadership Project:

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Tom Williams

Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.

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