IOWA

Forty leaders from across Iowa have been selected as members of the 2018-19 class of Leadership Iowa, the Iowa Association of Business and Industry announced. Iowa ABI

The NIACC John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center and the North Iowa Area SBDC named Staci Ackerson of Shankland Insurance as the Entrepreneur of the Month for September 2018. Mason City Globe Gazette 

NATION

Music festivals have a gender problem, so these friends plotted to fix it. They wondered, could an all-female lineup be the answer to male-dominated festivals like Coachella? The Lily 

For the first time in the Nobel Prizes’ 117-year history, an American woman on Wednesday was awarded the coveted prize for chemistry — an accolade that only four other women in the world have won. HuffPost Women 

A male doctor from Texas is getting backlash for comments published in the Dallas Medical Journal in which he said female physicians are paid less because they don’t work as hard as their male counterparts. HuffPost Women