Usually this is not a choice but a necessity. The number of employed mothers in Utah with children under age 6 increased 52 percent between 1980 and 1990. A majority of the young women graduating from high school this year will have to support themselves and probably their families at some time in their lives. And a further reality is that women nationally earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, while a Utah woman earns 72 cents on the man's dollar. Marie Cornwall, who was the first Belle S. Spafford visiting professor in social work at the University of Utah, found in her research that Utah men are more likely than other American men to obtain a bachelor's degree or post-graduate degree, while Utah women are more likely to have some college but much less likely to obtain a graduate degree than women nationally.
Education is as vital for women as it is for men.
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