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PublishedMarch 31, 2022
Women’s History Month: A record of Franklin County’s women’s suffrage movement
The Town of Farmington and the Farmington Historical Society will be honoring Isabel Greenwood and Farmington's role in the women's suffrage movement with a plaque to be erected and displayed in downtown Farmington in May.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2022
Legislators may ban most secret settlements in cases brought by employees
The push is part of a national effort to give victims of harassment and discrimination a voice, but it may have a cost as well.
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2022
Equal rights amendment to Maine Constitution hits Republican opposition in House
The 80-57 vote in favor of the proposal falls short of the two-thirds majority required to put the issue to voters, with another vote coming later in this session.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2021
Maine philanthropist’s resignation shakes global reproductive rights charity founded by her father
Judy Kahrl of Arrowsic, an heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune, resigned from the board of Pathfinder International, accusing it of resisting full disclosure of her father’s eugenicist legacy and the CEO’s management record.
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2021
Cancer screenings in jeopardy after New Hampshire denies funding for women’s clinics
The Republican-majority Executive Council decided against extending contracts to Planned Parenthood and two other family planning services that also provide abortions, even though no public money funds abortions in the state.
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PublishedApril 26, 2021
A hundred years ago, Lewiston elected women to office for the first time
In 1921, finally allowed to participate fully, women won four school board seats and controlled a majority of the panel.
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PublishedApril 22, 2021
Legislators weigh whether to require free tampons and pads in Maine schools
Hoping to ease the burden on students, legislators may mandate free sanitary supplies in bathrooms.
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PublishedOctober 11, 2020
The state of Maine women
Women in Maine are no longer 'civilly dead' on their wedding day, but they're still earning 28 cents less on the dollar. A look at how Maine women are faring 100 years after the 19th Amendment.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2020
Female hopefuls for Congress smash record again, as more Republican women seek office
As of July 1, 574 women had filed to run in primaries for U.S. House seats, topping the record 476 from two years ago.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2020
The ‘unconquerable’ Mary Wheelwright Mitchell
When every other female student at Bates College quit under pressure in the 1860s, Mary Mitchell refused to leave. That legacy stands today as one of the school's greatest sources of pride.
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