Stories tagged: "women"

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Business Meet Tempe’s Pioneering Female Dentist Nancy Robinson

Nancy Robinson became one of Tempe's first female dentists and opened her own practice in 1987.

Jessica Swarner Jessica Swarner April 10, 2023 12:14 pm MST
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Money Women Workers: Here Are Tools to Get the Pay You Deserve

Looking for ways to end women's pay inequity? Here are some resources that may help.

Lisa Hayes Lisa Hayes March 14, 2023 8:00 am MST
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Opinion Arizonans Need the Hobbs Administration To Keep the Foot on the Gas for Reproductive Freedom

OPINION: While many in the “pro-life” camp argue that banning abortions is the only way to protect life, in cases like mine, denying access to abortion is anything but.

Elizabeth Hargens March 9, 2023 9:16 am MST
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Abortion Abortion Medication May Be Accessible in Some States, but Not in Arizona — For Now

Despite the new announcement by the FDA about abortion medication, Arizonans will still have a challenging time acquiring these drugs. 

Araceli Cruz Araceli Cruz January 24, 2023 10:04 am MST
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Healthcare Family Planning Program To Expand Services to 30,000 People Under Hobbs’ Proposal

Hobbs’ budget to match federal funding for Title X, a family planning program, which will increase the program’s funding to $12 million.

Morgan Fischer Morgan Fischer January 20, 2023 1:20 pm MST

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WASHINGTON - APRIL 19: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., leaves Sen. Mark Kelly's office after meeting with Sen. Kelly and Rep. Ruben Gallego in the Hart Senate Office Building on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Education BREAKING: Sinema Joins Republicans in Vote to Overturn Student Loan Debt Relief
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Culture 6 Influential Women Who Helped Shaped Arizona History

From breaking glass ceilings to championing for the rights of marginalized communities, these women’s stories are worth sharing.

Copper Courier Staff November 10, 2022 11:45 am MST
Culture FILE - In this Jan. 4, 1999, file photo, waiting to be sworn into the five top positions in Arizona government are, from left, Gov, Jane Dee Hull, Secretary of State-elect Betsey Bayless, state Attorney General-elect Janet Napolitano, Treasurer-elect Carol Springer, and Superintendent of Public Schools-elect Lisa Graham Keegan. Hull, the first woman elected governor of Arizona, has died at age 84. Gov. Doug Ducey announced her death on Twitter on Friday, April 17, 2020, saying Hull "dedicated 25 years to principled public service. (AP Photo/Ken Levine)
Culture Who Were Arizona’s ‘Fab Five’ and What Made Them So Fab? 

In the late ’90s, five women simultaneously held the highest positions in Arizona state government—a feat that had never been accomplished before and hasn’t happened again since. 

Copper Courier Staff July 29, 2022 2:48 pm MST