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There are two free upcoming events that focus on women in society. On Thursday, from 1 to 4 p.m., the Journal of Gender, Race & Justice will ask, “Is Iowa ready for a new tradition?” When it comes to gender diversity in the hall of power, Iowa has mixed traditions. Although slow to grant women [...]

Women’s equality will be the focus Thursday night in Iowa City as the League of Women Voters of Johnson County hosts a three-woman panel and discussion at Old Brick, 26 E Market St. Panelists for “Women’s Equlity: Myth or Reality?” are Prof. Linda Kerber of the University of Iowa Department of History, Prof. Ann Laquer [...]

The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice will host its 15th anniversary symposium on the University of Iowa campus in March 2011. The symposium, “War on: The Fallout of Declaring Ware on Social Issues,” will explore the consequences of declaring war on society’s problems. From the War on Poverty, to the War on Crime, to [...]

Three contributors to feministing.com — Vanessa Valenti, Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Miriam Perez — will be speaking next month in Iowa City. The event, “A Conversation with the Editors of Feministing.com,” is part of an annual observance by the Women’s Resource and Action Center at the University of Iowa of International Women’s Month. The trio will [...]

You hear a lot of jokes about Iowa City, Johnson County and the liberals who live there and the very few conservatives who dare to.  A couple of years ago I was sitting at the Old Capitol Mall waiting on Tom when an older gentleman walking by commented to his wife about a car having [...]

For anyone who has ever had the misfortune of attempting the I-80/I-380 interchange, this is good news: The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) will hold a location design public hearing Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in Iowa City to discuss the proposed improvement of the Interstate 80/Interstate 380/U.S. 218/Iowa 27 interchange in Johnson County. The purpose [...]

A great deal has changed in our nation and world during the nearly 40 years since a group of women met at a conference in Boston to talk about their medical experiences and share knowledge about their bodies. While the women associated with the group have never changed their primary focus of educating women about [...]

The varied age groups and socioeconomic levels in the reception hall for the 2008 Choice Dinner held at Iowa Memorial Union on the University of Iowa campus wasn’t an unnoticed detail among those attending the event. “We’re here because we’ve been coming to this event for probably 20 years — maybe more,” said Nancy Lynch [...]

If you think eastern Iowa seems an unlikely place to see Republican presidential hopefuls two weeks away from the caucuses, you’re probably right. Linn and Johnson counties, in particular, have not been bastions of Republican strength, and, most Republicans reside in the western half of the state. Still, the numbers didn’t seem to be on [...]

On the eve of scheduled candlelight prayer vigils outside of her Davenport office, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced she will be releasing her plan to fight HIV/AIDS both domestically and globally. “Sen. Clinton has stepped up to the plate, and released a plan to fight AIDS which, if enacted, will help turn [...]