Women as legislators, women as employers: striving for balance in public policy.

From: Utah Business | Date: August 1, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

WOMEN AS LEGISLATORS, WOMEN AS EMPLOYERS

Striving for Balance in Public Policy

In its first year of statehood in 1896, Utah became America's third state to give suffrage to women. Today, nearly 100 years later, Utah's 12 women state legislators represent as many as 240,000 Utahns.

Rep. Joanne R. Milner, D-Salt Lake City, represents one of the poorest districts in all of Utah. One night, after a day of work that included attending an extravagant fund-raising luncheon, she answered a knock on her door. Three young hispanic boys stood on her doorstep, each holding a ...

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