Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wednesday's repeal of Iowa’s gender quota laws is a significant win for equality under the law. Since the 1980s, Iowa’s state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the most selective schools, the gender gap in computer science and engineering is nearly closed. skynesher/E+ via Getty Images ...

Amidst the swirling controversy over a recommendation by a state committee to scrap more than 100 Iowa boards and commissions lurks another proposal many might have missed. The Boards and Commissions ...

AMES, Iowa – Just two of Iowa’s 99 counties have achieved gender balance on appointed boards and commissions, according to a new report by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa ...

AMES, Iowa – More women are now serving on municipal boards and commissions in Iowa due in part to the state’s gender balance law. The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State ...

A Des Moines city councilman is demanding an apology after the city council voted Monday to make an exception to the city’s gender-balance policy while filling two vacancies on the Plan and Zoning ...

Despite a desire to run for office and clear qualifications, Megan Alter questioned her place in the process when she ran for Iowa City City Council in 2019. Now a city councilor, Alter began her ...

DUBAI, 4th May, 2025 (WAM) -- In a landmark initiative that advances the UAE’s gender balance agenda, H.H. Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the UAE Gender Balance ...

Jeffrey Jennings is an attorney and Kileen Lindgren is legal policy manager at Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm. Wednesday's repeal of Iowa’s gender quota laws is a significant win ...