Like Iowa, Utah has a law that encourages gender balance on state boards and commissions. But unlike Iowa, Utah hasn’t come close to that goal.
Women filled 32.7% of the positions on 345 boards and commissions in the state in 2019, according to a brief released Tuesday from the Utah Women and Leadership Project. That’s a 4.6% increase from research on the same topic in 2016.
“Developments in the last few years are genuinely encouraging, yet many state agencies still have little gender diversity on their boards (with numerous areas showing no female representation),” according to the brief.