SALT LAKE CITY — Utah already scores poorly on America survey data looking at women in business leadership, but a recent study shows the state isn't getting any better or even staying the same: It's worsening.
“The Status of Women Leaders in Utah: A 2018 Update,” published by the Utah Women and Leadership Project, reveals since 2014 the percentage of women in top leadership roles in Utah companies with 100 employees or more has dropped nearly in half, from 11.6 to 6.4.
"Unconscious bias is as strong as ever," Madsen said. "Even though there's progress and really great companies looking at gender issues . . . there's still lots of organizations and CEOs and boards that just don't get that it's important. They don't care if there's a woman in their leadership."
As editor-in-chief at Utah Business, Griffin oversees the yearly feature "30 Women to Watch," highlighting 30 nominated women creating waves in the Utah business community.
Griffin said Utah demographics are unique, with its largely white population and the highest percentage of stay-at-home mothers.
"There is nothing wrong with either of those things, but it means our companies are comprised of mostly white males," she said.
Go figure...
Edited to add: Linking this to the following thread viewtopic.php?f=1&t=49547 which shows perhaps how men in leadership positions in Utah see women...
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“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
There are plenty of blue collar trade positions they could fill. They just need to get off their asses and do it.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:There are plenty of blue collar trade positions they could fill. They just need to get off their asses and do it.
- Doc
I don't think that's the point. In fact, females ages 16 and above comprised 59.6 % of the civilian workforce in Utah in the years 2012-2016. They are working, but they're not proportionately representated in business leadership roles. Not even close.
What makes them qualified to be in "business leadership positions" by virtue of being women? I've been driving our interstate and state highways quite a bit and haven't seen one female truck driver. Why don't I hear women bitching about being underrepresented in the truck driving industry?
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
We need more women in STEM fields, not in Wall Street. Business leaders do nothing for the progress of humanity. Corporate America only causes more heart attacks for putting American workers with too much stress.
The Washington Post reports
A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse looks at degrees in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) and finds that the share of STEM bachelor’s degrees going to women ticked down over the past decade. The biggest decline was in computer science, where women received 23 percent of bachelor’s degrees awarded in 2004 and just 18 percent in 2014. On the bright side — at least for career prospects — both men and women are slightly more likely to be majoring in STEM fields today than they were in 2004; it’s just that men have shown more growth than women.
Laursen, Sandra, et al. Undergraduate research in the sciences: Engaging students in real science. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah already scores poorly on America survey data looking at women in business leadership, but a recent study shows the state isn't getting any better or even staying the same: It's worsening.
“The Status of Women Leaders in Utah: A 2018 Update,” published by the Utah Women and Leadership Project, reveals since 2014 the percentage of women in top leadership roles in Utah companies with 100 employees or more has dropped nearly in half, from 11.6 to 6.4.
"Unconscious bias is as strong as ever," Madsen said. "Even though there's progress and really great companies looking at gender issues . . . there's still lots of organizations and CEOs and boards that just don't get that it's important. They don't care if there's a woman in their leadership."
As editor-in-chief at Utah Business, Griffin oversees the yearly feature "30 Women to Watch," highlighting 30 nominated women creating waves in the Utah business community.
Griffin said Utah demographics are unique, with its largely white population and the highest percentage of stay-at-home mothers.
"There is nothing wrong with either of those things, but it means our companies are comprised of mostly white males," she said.
Go figure...
As on earth, so in heaven.... while Heavenly Mother stays home in this universe and has gajillions and gajillions of babies, Heavenly Father is out and about on His executive business in the Multiverse.
Dr CamNC4Me
"Dr. Peterson and his Callithumpian cabal of BYU idiots have been marginalized by their own inevitable irrelevancy defending a fraud."
I think I'd rather stay back at the manse while having my Carl Sagans nanny for me while HF is out busting his ass to support his superbrood. Not a bad gig if you ask me.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:What makes them qualified to be in "business leadership positions" by virtue of being women? I've been driving our interstate and state highways quite a bit and haven't seen one female truck driver. Why don't I hear women bitching about being underrepresented in the truck driving industry?
- Doc
Do you mean, in what fields where women work are they underrepresented in leadership positions where they are probably qualified to work?
DoubtingThomas wrote:We need more women in STEM fields, not in Wall Street. Business leaders do nothing for the progress of humanity. Corporate America only causes more heart attacks for putting American workers with too much stress.
The Washington Post reports
A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse looks at degrees in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) and finds that the share of STEM bachelor’s degrees going to women ticked down over the past decade. The biggest decline was in computer science, where women received 23 percent of bachelor’s degrees awarded in 2004 and just 18 percent in 2014. On the bright side — at least for career prospects — both men and women are slightly more likely to be majoring in STEM fields today than they were in 2004; it’s just that men have shown more growth than women.
Laursen, Sandra, et al. Undergraduate research in the sciences: Engaging students in real science. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
As a graduate in a STEM field, I have observed that such work can progress to upper management and corporate roles. An experiential understanding of complexity science may be exactly what is missing in corporate roles when they're not benefitting humanity. Of course women can be a part of that.
What a trajectory....Utah is headed back to the 1950’s.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
