Lift IOWA: News briefs – Week of July 13
Midwest Family Lending donates to Dorothy’s House: Midwest Family Lending recently donated $2,020 to Dorothy’s House through its MFLCares program. The money will be used to support the local nonprofit’s mission to provide a safe place for human trafficking and exploitation survivors. Through MFLCares, Midwest Family Lending employees nominate and select one cause a month to support. This month, Dorothy’s House started taking new participants post-pandemic. Later this year, the program will also start serving all survivors of human trafficking and exploitation, including men, nonbinary individuals, those who have custody of their minor children and labor trafficking survivors.
The pandemic’s setbacks on working moms: Women have shouldered more child care and housework responsibilities than men since long before the coronavirus era. But with schools, day care centers and camps closed, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated that disparity. Even with men pitching in more, women are scrambling to balance their work with household obligations. Patricia Cohen and Tiffany Hsu, who cover business and economics for the New York Times, recently reported on how the effects of the pandemic on working mothers will last far beyond this period of crisis.
AND IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:
The Bohemian Hotel in Iowa City, once known as the Highlander Hotel, officially opened its doors last week. The hotel is owned and operated by Angela Harrington.
The Supreme Court last week upheld a Trump administration regulation that lets employers with religious or moral objections limit women’s access to birth control coverage under the Affordable Care Act. New York Times
Soldier Vanessa Guillen went missing in April, and her remains were found at the end of June. Guillen, a 20-year-old specialist in the Army, had told her family that she had been sexually harassed while on base. New York Times
Even though more GOP women than ever are running for office this election cycle, that doesn’t mean a record-breaking number of Republican women will join Congress. CNN
Glamour’s 2020 College Women of the Year are scientists, writers, business owners, podcasters and elected politicians. Rachel Junck, who attends Iowa State University, majoring in chemical engineering, is featured on the list for winning her seat on the Ames City Council in December.
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