UTAH WOMEN & LEADERSHIP PROJECT

Fewer than 10 percent of Utah companies report having a woman as CEO, according to new research from the Utah State University’s Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP). Of the 710 companies reporting in the survey, 68 (9.6 percent) said their CEO is a woman. That’s up from 4.7 percent in 2018, the last time the survey was reported.

The UWLP first released research in 2014 about the status of women leaders in Utah business, with an update in 2018 to determine if progress had been made. The 2018 update reported a drop in women CEOs before the Please log in to see the rest of this story.