A report released last year found that the wage gap between women and men in Utah is the second largest in the country, just ahead of Louisiana.
In an effort to better understand the underlying causes and what can be done to address the gap, Sen. Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City, requested some money to study the issue. The state didn’t have it, she was told.
So on Monday, she announced two Brigham Young University researchers were willing to do the work for free — they just needed approval from the Legislature so they could get some necessary data from the state.