Power Of The Past: Retelling Utah's Suffragette History To Empower Modern Women Women in Utah became the first in America to vote under an equal suffrage law on Feb. 14, 1870. There are celebrations, but it means confronting the state's uncomfortable polygamy history, too.
Author Susan Straight Takes Us 'In The Country Of Women' In her new memoir, Straight tells the story of the women in her family—her Swiss-German blood relatives and her African American, Indigenous and Creole in-laws who crossed the U.S. to settle in Calif.
Morning Edition After Controversial Leaders Step Down, The Women's March Tries Again In 2020 For the fourth year, the anti-Trump Women's March will stage events in Washington, D.C., and other places. After years of controversy, the group now has new leadership and a new focus.
For These Women, The Equal Rights Amendment Has Been A Decades-Long Battle Women who fought for and against the Equal Rights Amendment decades ago — sometimes as teenagers — are watching the votes in Virginia. If
All Things Considered Women Now Outnumber Men On U.S. Payrolls Women got the lion's share of new jobs in December and now outnumber men on U.S. payrolls. This unusual situation reflects the growth of industries like health care where women dominate.
An abortion clinic in Louisiana is at the center of a major Supreme Court case. Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport is challenging a 2014 state law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital in case of an emergency.
Serial rapists targeted women on Aurora. This woman got justice In June 2017, Robin Curtis lived in a tent one block away from busy Aurora Avenue in Seattle.
'Badass': The One Word That Has Become A Lightning Rod For Many Female Chefs In her new book, Charlotte Druckman asks over 100 female chefs and food writers if there are any words or phrases they wish people would stop using to describe them. One word was a bit of a surprise.
KUOW Newsroom $86 less per day: Barbers at Fort Lewis base struggle with pay cuts Barbers at the Fort Lewis military base near Tacoma are alleging retaliation after new management has cut their commissions.
KUOW Newsroom 'Who run the world?' At night, Seattle's immigrant women Fatima had sewn up her dress one inch so that she could vacuum on the floors of a downtown Seattle high rise.
