A few weeks ago I wrote about the lack of women appointed to the Utah Legislature’s new “Tax Restructuring and Equalization Task Force.” Out of 10 voting members, there is one woman – Democratic Sen. Karen Mayne.
Republican leaders could not imagine one woman within their own caucuses who might be a good fit for the task force, which is tasked with revamping the state’s entire tax scheme. I wrote about the obvious failure to include women’s perspective, especially on a subject matter that so directly affects women. (One idea for the new scheme is to tax service industries, which are disproportionately staffed by women.