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In Utah politics, women are just getting started
150 years after Utah women were the first to vote, more and more are participating in politics including two candidates for the U.S. Senate
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When Seraph Young cast a ballot in a municipal election on Feb. 14, 1870, in Salt Lake City, she instantly made history. Never before had a woman voted in the United States under a law that afforded her the same suffrage rights as a man. And while the Wyoming Territory passed a suffrage law the previous December, Utah women by way of a measure signed just two days prior to the Feb. 14 city election were the first in the nation to cast ballots. Six months later, on Aug. 1, thousands of Utah women voted in the general election for the first time.
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SALT LAKE CITY As Monday was declared Women s Day in Utah, shining examples of female leadership spoke together about lifting others and the lessons they ve learned to balance their lives while pursuing their passions.
Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, the second woman elected to the position, recounted the history of Utah s prominent women and how they broke glass ceilings for future generations, such as the first female vote cast by Seraph Young in 1870. Women in Utah have a long track record of doing, not just talking. And there s plenty more to do, she said.
Henderson joined other female leaders as the Women s Business Center of Utah commemorated International Women s Day through a conference via Zoom, with a panel of speakers including Henderson; Heidi Kuhn, CEO and founder of Roots of Peace; Patricia Jones, former state representative and CEO of the Women s Leadership Institute; and Rachelle Morris, vice president and client adviser at JP Morgan bank.
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