| Updated: 1:46 p.m.
Nearly 16% of Utah women have withdrawn in some way from the workplace during the coronavirus pandemic, new data shows.
And when you think about that in terms of the state’s population, said Susan Madsen, founder and director of the Utah Women and Leadership Project at Utah State University, that’s “thousands and thousands of women.”
Of Utah women surveyed by the project in January, 2.4% left the workforce completely and 2.8% took a leave of absence. Women commonly said they left jobs because their employer had to close or faced some type of financial hardship (4.4 out of 10); or because they had to care to care for children, the elderly or people with disabilities (1.4 out of 10).