Women

Dayton is one of only 20 YWCA locations to offer the Women Empowerment 360 program.

A staff sergeant at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base says she no longer has to experience pain from twisting her hair into a regulation bun. Women in the Air Force with thicker hair are now able to wear ponytails and braids on duty.

Female employees like Ashley Raff make up 16% of oil and gas industry workers according to a 2018 report. Raff remembers when she was the only woman on a drilling rig in 2012.

Farming presents unique challenges for women. As wives of farmers, they often balance full-time jobs off the farm while raising a family. Living in…

In Woodstock, Ohio in Champaign County women from all around Ohio and neighboring states who make up a sort of traveling sisterhood gathered on the…

A century ago the suffragettes who were trying to win the right to vote were drawing closer to victory in their long campaign. The Nineteenth Amendment to…

It’s a chilly March afternoon in Marysville, Ohio, and I’m riding around on a golf cart with Clara Golding Kent, the public information officer for the…

Shannon Evans came to prison earlier this year after a three-year spiral into drug addiction. As she puts it, she used to be a “goody-two-shoes” and never…

During WYSO’s community voices course at Dayton Correctional Institution, the topic of prison food kept coming up. Dayton Correctional Institution gets…

Nikkia Sullivan grew up wanting to be a kingpin. At 13 she set out to make her dream come true. In this story she talks to fellow inmate LeShae Landry…

Ohio women make about 78 cents for every dollar made by their male counterparts, according to a new study by National Partnership for Women and Families.…

Aimee Wissman is three years into an eight-year sentence at Dayton Correctional Institution for crimes related to her heroin addiction. As an artist, she…