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Lift IOWA – Women In The News: 10-28-19

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Bethany Wilcoxon, senior adviser at McClure Engineering Co. in Clive, received the 2019 Design Achievement Award last week from the Iowa State University College of Design. Iowa State University

Cooks’ Emporium, an Ames Main Street staple selling kitchenware, is celebrating 40 years of downtown business this month. It all started, according to founder Margaret “Marg” Junkhan, with a quiche pan — or, rather, the lack of one. Ames Tribune

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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin wants to land the first woman on the moon — but Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson isn’t letting Blue Origin make history on its own. Fortune

The fifth Democratic debate is set for November with four moderators. For the first time ever, all of those journalists will be women. NBC News

Scandals at WeWork, Theranos and other startups are unfairly tarnishing the reputations of female-founded companies not connected to those organizations, founders say. Fortune

Facing a class-action lawsuit over gender pay discrimination, the Walt Disney Co. is arguing that 10 plaintiffs can’t represent a larger class — because the company is too big and too diverse for those women to represent thousands of employees. Variety