April 2025 Newsletter

Colleagues,

Good morning! I have a number of Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) announcements for April:

First, we are pleased to announce the release of a new research snapshot today titled “Child Sexual Abuse: What Utahns Need To Know” (with co-author Kolene Anderson). Additionally, a few weeks ago we released a new white paper titled “Home, Health, Community, & Allyship: Utahns’ Awareness, Understanding, and Attitudes,” which focuses on sharing the results of our fall survey around the topics of home and family, health across the lifespan, political and civic representation, and allyship. Finally, we also released a white paper in March titled "Utah Organizations Supporting Women & Girls: Exploring the Landscape.”

Second, we are excited to announce that registration for the 3rd Annual A Bolder Way Forward Summit is now open! The event will be held on June 6, 2025, from 8:30am-3:00pm at Zions Bancorporation Technology Campus. Join us for this important annual gathering of people committed to engaging in making Utah a place where more girls, women, and families can thrive!

Third, we have a few resources to highlight this month:

• UWLP Podcast Episodes (with Utah Public Radio): Understanding Child Sexual Abuse in Utah, Nurturing Hope in Ourselves and Others: The Science of Hope and Well-Being, Promoting Civility and Dignity in Utah, and Understanding Organizational Strategies & Workplace Culture in Utah
• Event Video: A Bolder Way Forward: Updates and Next Steps
• Community Calendar: View our community calendar for all events in Utah for girls and women.

Fourth, April is “Sexual Assault Awareness Month” and “Child Abuse Prevention Month.” To learn more about Utah efforts to decrease our high violence rates, visit the Sexual Assault Spoke and Child Sexual Abuse Spoke webpages.

Finally, check out some key articles and media published this past month:

• What Do Companies Who Champion Women Do? (Forbes, Mar. 25, 2025)
• Utah Organizations Supporting Women & Girls: Exploring the Landscape (LinkedIn, Mar. 23, 2025)
• USU UWLP Publishes Fifth of Six White Papers: Home, Health, Community and Allyship (Utah State Today, Mar. 20, 2025)
• Guest Opinion: Girls and School – Research That Matters (Daily Herald, Mar. 15, 2025)
• Doing Good in our Communities: Spotlighting Nonprofits on Access Utah (Utah Public Radio, Mar. 13, 2025)
• Best and Worst States for Women in 2024 – Where Does Utah Rank? (Utah News Dispatch, Mar. 11, 2025)
• Women and Aging: What Utahns Need to Know (LinkedIn, Mar. 11, 2025)
• New Research Shows Gender Pay Gap Slowly Shrinking in US, What About Utah? (KSL NewsRadio, Mar. 10, 2025)
• UWLP Publishes Fourth of Six White Papers: Women, Finance, Education (Utah State Today, Mar. 6, 2025)
• Voices: Where are the Women? A Century After Kanab’s All-Female Council, Utah Still Lags. (The Salt Lake Tribune, Mar. 4, 2025)
• The Best States for Women’s Health – How Does Utah Fare? (The City Journals, Mar. 3, 2025)
• A State-by-State Ranking by Gender: Where Does Utah Fall on Claiming Leadership Skills? (LinkedIn, Mar. 3, 2025)

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Enjoy April!