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On Saturday, March 12, the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra will premiere Julia Louisa Esther. It focuses on the stories of three women.
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An annual report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the gender wage gap in the United States held steady during the pandemic, with women working...
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The Teton County Coroner has released the cause of death for 22-year-old Gabby Petito: death by strangulation. Petito's body was found on Sept. 19 in Bridger- Teton National Forest along the border of Grand Teton National Park. Her death has already been ruled a homicide.
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Military leaders and state overseers allegedly fail victims of workplace hostility and evade accountability.
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Over the summer, the first two women were granted tenure in soil sciences at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Karen Vaughan and Dr. Linda van Diepen have dedicated time to looking at what diversity looks like in their field. Wyoming Public Radio's Ivy Engel sat down with both of them to discuss why the soil sciences field has historically had diversity difficulties. Dr. Karen Vaughan started on women's participation in the field.
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Climb Wyoming is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. Climb is an organization that offers job training to single, low-income mothers and helps them find work after they graduate the program. Martha Harris spoke with Katie Hogarty, the incoming CEO for Climb Wyoming, about what Climb has done in the last 35 years and how the program works.
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A new report from the Wyoming Women's Foundation shows that women filed a disproportionate number of unemployment claims, while single mothers were more likely than other parents to fear paying rent or affording food.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court has a new chief justice. Kate Fox has been a justice on the court since 2014. She took over for former chief justice Mike Davis this month. Wyoming Public Radio's Catherine Wheeler spoke to Fox about her new role. Fox started by describing what it feels like to be only the second woman to have the position in Wyoming state history.
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Hormones play an important role in mammalian reproduction. So when something goes wrong with them, a lot of other things can go wrong too. A University of Wyoming researcher is trying to figure out exactly what role misregulation of the hormones estrogen and progesterone play in female reproductive diseases like endometriosis, which affects one in ten women.
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This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a report on sexual and reproductive health, with a focus on how the pandemic may have changed things.…