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