Arts & Life DC Comics’ Poison Ivy is an ecoterrorist — and the anti-hero the Pacific Northwest needs Rather than playing a somewhat shallow seductress, DC Comics' Poison Ivy is now starring as a complicated anti-hero in her own storyline. Katie Campbell
Politics Strippers say Washington state is terrible for dancing. They want a 'bill of rights' to fix that Washington’s ban on alcohol in strip clubs made it difficult to attract customers. That meant dancers paid higher “house fees” or “rent” to use the stage. Monica Nickelsburg
Sports A major UW sports record* is about to fall. Why the asterisk? The NCAA fought bringing women’s sports into the fold for a decade after the passage of Title IX Kim Malcolm John O'Brien Play AudioListen 5 mins
Sports 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. Diana Opong Hans Anderson Play AudioListen 14 mins
Sports 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. Vaughan Jones
Business 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. Scott Horsley
Health 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. Eilís O'Neill Play AudioListen 5 mins
Asia '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. Fazelminallah Qazizai Diaa Hadid Play AudioListen 4 mins
Education 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. Sami West Play AudioListen 2 mins
Business Exploring policy solutions to the gender pay gap KUOW’s Monica Nickelsburg explores one of the world’s most intractable challenges. Monica Nickelsburg Play AudioListen 4 mins
