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  OL Reign loses NWSL championship, Rapinoe injured in final game

  The stage was set this Saturday, the OL Reign were vying for their first National Women’s Soccer League Championship against New York's Gotham FC. It was also the final professional game for the Reign's transcendent talent, retiring winger Megan Rapinoe, and then, less than five minutes into the match, Rapinoe left with an injury.
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  Megan Rapinoe has one last chance at an NWSL Championship

  She’s won an Olympic gold medal and two Women’s World Cups, and a Ballon d'Or Féminin for the best women’s soccer player in the world, but Megan Rapinoe has never taken home a National Women’s Soccer League trophy. She gets her last chance on Saturday, when the Reign face off against New York’s Gotham FC in the NWSL Championship.

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  Economics Nobel Prize goes to Claudia Goldin, an expert on women at work

  Harvard University's Claudia Goldin has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on women in the labor market. She studies the causes of the persistent pay gap between men and women.

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  A vending machine in Seattle that dispenses the morning-after pill

  There’s a new kind of vending machine on the University of Washington campus. It sells pregnancy tests, tampons, tylenol – and the morning-after pill for $12.60, packaged in purple and white boxes.
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  'I am crying at my salon': Taliban orders Kabul beauty parlors to shut down

  All beauty salons in Kabul must close by the end of July. These businesses are one of the few places where women can work and congregate under the Taliban regime.
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  Report: WA's high cost of child care hits single moms hardest

  A new report finds the average annual cost to send a toddler to a child care center in Washington state has risen to more than $14,000.
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  Exploring policy solutions to the gender pay gap

  KUOW’s Monica Nickelsburg explores one of the world’s most intractable challenges.
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  How to lose money if you’re a working woman? Have kids

  Working women stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of their careers compared to their male counterparts. The median salary gap between men and women is particularly dramatic in Washington state.
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  Tupperware once changed women's lives. Now it struggles to survive

  The brand turned homemakers into saleswomen and became synonymous with kitchen storage. But it has relied on Tupperware parties for sales--and struggled to keep its business fresh. Is its fate sealed?

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  'It's not for the faint-hearted' — the story of India's intrepid women seaweed divers

  In goggles and flipflops, they dive to harvest seaweed. It's risky work. They'll earn $3 to $6 a day. Now climate change and environmental rules make it harder to pursue the traditional profession.

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