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Report: More Utah women are voting and working outside home — but progress varies for women of color

More women in Utah are working outside the home, are covered by health insurance and are voting, compared to previous years.

Those factors vary, though, when you look at women of color, according to a report released Thursday at the Utah Women’s Policy Conference, which continues Friday at the JADEN Event Center in Salt Lake City.

The report, “The well-being of women in Utah in 2019,” updates a 2015 look at how women in Utah fare on economic, health and political issues.

Slightly more than 61% of Utah women age 16 or older participate in the labor force, the new report said, which is a small increase from 2015 and higher than the current national rate of 58.