Aug. 2023 | Vol. 20 Iss. 08
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A BOLDER WAY FORWARD IS THE START OF A REVOLUTION By Peri Kinder | peri.k@thecityjournals.com
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hile traveling to and from Costa Rica, Professor Susan Madsen, founding director of the Utah Women and Leadership Project, read “How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don’t.” The book by Leslie Crutchfield inspired Madsen to create an innovative system to help women and girls in Utah. In June, UWLP launched A Bolder Way Forward, not just a new initiative, but a movement that Madsen hopes will implement positive change, create opportunities and offer support for women and girls in a revolutionary way. “National and statewide studies continue to show that women and girls in Utah are not thriving in critical areas,” Madsen said. “Year after year, Utah continues to have high levels of domestic violence, sexual assault, child sexual abuse and gender based discrimination, while also ranking us the worst state for women’s equality and having low levels of women’s leadership representation in nearly all domains including in business and politics.” BWF is designed to be a vehicle of change for Utah women and is represented by a wheel with 18 spokes, a rim and a hub. The center of the wheel is the goal to help more women and girls thrive. The rim includes five impact teams to address sexism, identity (such as gender, race and neurodiversity), culture (including art, music and women’s history) and male allyship. The 18 spokes correspond to five key focal points that The framework for A Bolder Way Forward is represented by a wheel with 18 spokes, a rim and a hub. Each spoke corresponds to five key focal
Continued page 30 points that highlight where change needs to occur to create better opportunities for women and girls. (Image courtesy of UWLP)
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