Women

In this episode, an exerpt from IPR's podcast From the Archives reflects on the career of Iowa legislator Minnette Doderer, who fought for equal treatment for men and women.

Title IX passed 50 years ago, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity receiving federal funds. Though the impacts have been broad, the law is best known for opening the doors for women's sports.

Host Charity Nebbe and her guests talk about girls high school wrestling and how it has been officially sanctioned by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

The first female bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa will be ordained this weekend.

Title IX became law in 1972. As a result any school that receives any federal money is required to provide fair and equal treatment of the sexes in all…

Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe speaks with guests who are fighting to end violence against indigenous women.

Last week, U.S. Rep. Abby Finkenauer, D-Iowa, stood up in front of the House of Representatives in Washington D.C. to share her painful story of living…

The fight for women’s suffrage, and the right to vote, was long and hard in the United States. Many of the early leaders of the movement did not live to…

What isn't being said about the lives of women in rural Kentucky?Fueled by intuition, and inspired by time she spent filming present day life in rural…