The Utah Women and Leadership Project recently released the discoveries the team found in its third and final quantitative look at the leadership in Utah’s public sector. Women hold 29.1 percent of municipal leadership positions, which is lower compared to leaders in Utah state and county governments which are both at 40 percent. Susan Madsen, the founder and director of the Utah Women and Leadership Project, was surprised at some results. One was that there was higher percentage of women with senior roles rather then front-line positions, which was opposite of what the researchers were expecting. Another was that rural counties had a higher proportion of women compared to urban counties. Unfortunately, of those, Uintah County had the lowest percentage of women leadership at 11.6%. The final analysis of the study grouped city leadership positions by multi-county districts and leadership groups in the Uintah Basin multi-county district (Daggett, Duchesne and Uintah Counties) were the least representative at 25 percent.
