Utah Women in the Workplace: Gender Pay Gap & Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Discrimination

In this episode, we discuss two elements of a recently released white paper titled “Women in the Workplace in 2025: Utahns’ Awareness, Understanding, and Attitudes.” The two we’ll be talking about today will be the gender pay gap and sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination. 

Based on an 83-item survey conducted in October and November of 2025, this study collected data from more than 5,200 Utahns across both representative and convenience samples. This marks the third consecutive year of data collection, allowing us to examine how perceptions and experiences have shifted since the 2023 and 2024 surveys. In this episode, we’ll walk through key findings from the two sections mentioned to better understand the challenges, trends, and opportunities shaping the lives of Utah women and girls today.

Dr. Susan Madsen, an Extension Professor of Leadership at Utah State University and the Founding Director of the UWLP and A Bolder Way Forward, is joined by two Bolder Way Forward leaders. First, Stacee Pedersen, President of Momentum Employer Group, and an advisor for the Gender Pay Gap spoke in A Bolder Way Forward. Second, Nancy Sylvester, Counsel for Ogletree Deakins law firm and an advisor for the Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Discrimination spoke in A Bolder Way Forward.