Why Utah Can't Afford To Keep Its 1970s Gender Gaps

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Linda Wardell hasn’t forgotten her first Salt Lake City meeting with local business partners five years ago. Fifty men. One woman.

“I realized that maybe they’d never had a woman in the room before,” the Atlanta native says in her soft drawl about representatives from the real-estate-development arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church. “Some of them were looking a little uncomfortable.”