Utah has ranked dead last in the U.S. for women’s equality eight years in a row, but a study from Lehi-based online lending marketplace Lendio found that the number of women-owned businesses in Utah grew 22 percent from 2012 to 2020 — the eighth-highest growth rate in the country.
Lendio researchers concluded that this may be due in part to Utah’s overall positive business environment with the best Gini Index, a measure of income inequality, in the country. Utah also has above-average employment rates for women, with 60 percent of Please log in to see the rest of this story.
