Tag: women

You look at the picture and just can’t turn away. Doesn’t matter if you’re Democrat or Republican; if you’re a woman, it’s simply amazing. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is staring down President Trump in…

SAN DIEGO — UC San Diego graduate Jessica Meir and fellow astronaut Christina Koch made history before most people woke up Friday, becoming the first all-female team of astronauts to perform a spacewalk. Meir and…

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 66-year-old woman. I had a hysterectomy and removal of one ovary. For the past six months, I have had brown vaginal discharge. Should I be concerned? — L.M.  …

Gov. Cuomo did New York’s women a vital service last week signing legislation creating a new maternal mortality review board, a panel of experts that will examine why so many mothers still die from pregnancy-related…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s expected pick to fill a seat on the Federal Reserve is running into significant trouble in the Senate, where Republicans have expressed skepticism over Stephen Moore’s past writings and statements…

In a landmark case — one judge called it “the most significant and far-reaching decision this court has ever made” — a clear majority said Friday that the Kansas Constitution fundamentally protects the right to…

A recent article in The Atlantic, titled “The Invisibility of Older Women,” by Akiko Busch, struck a deep chord. Having turned 65 last month, I have been welcomed, on more than one occasion, to the…

CHICAGO — Chicago will elect its first African-American woman as its next mayor, after former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle moved on to an April runoff amid a record…

(Editor?s note: This is part two in a Kansas News Service series on college and careers) Life is expensive. Rent, health care, raising a family, saving for retirement ? it adds up. But so does…

In an act of desperation, a young Saudi woman broke free from what she described as an abusive family by barricading herself in a hotel room until authorities granted her safe passage to a country…