Women

Students learned just how much egalitarian progress MU has made since the 1970s yesterday. Woman’s right advocate Jeannette Pai-Espinosa spoke Thursday at…

Hailing a cab may become a thing of the past in Columbia, but local taxi companies and city rules might get in the way.Uber, a ride sharing service that…

Following the Arab Spring, gender equality between men and women in the Middle East is improving. Women today have more opportunities, both in business…

In spring 2001, Desma Brooks, Michelle Fischer and Debbie Helton signed up for the National Guard expecting just a few days of drills each month. Soldier Girls tells the stories of their deployments.

Women make up around 29% of the technology workforce nationally. Only 18 % of technology degrees were earned by women in 2012, which is down from 35% in…

Vitamin deficiencies near the time of conception change which genes get turned on during early development, scientists find.

What started as research for a women’s retreat at church has become a book – a first book for local author Leslie Clay. In 2008, Clay was on the committee…

The Missouri Coalition Against Common Core and the Concerned Women for America of Missouri rallied against Common Core state school standards at the state…

Monday’s Morning Edition on NPR featured a story about a Columbia biotech startup. We thought we’d give it an encore run on KBIA in case you missed it.…

On this week's Business Beat: 47 million Americans are enrolled in the SNAP program, or food stamps, including nearly 16 percent of Missourians. SNAP is…