On this week’s 51%, an outdoor co-op puts women front and center, we hear why the job market is tough for military spouses, who mainly are women, and hear why pregnant women with opioid addictions have trouble finding doctors.

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Outdoor co-op REI CEO and President Jerry Stritske earlier this year announced the launch of an effort to promote gender equity in the outdoors. WTIP’s CJ Heithoff spoke with REI Bloomington, Minnesota flagship store manager Brian Harrow about the new effort called Force of Nature, what REI is trying to achieve and why it’s important.

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On this week’s 51%, a woman’s experience at a motorcycle repair shop prompts her partner to weigh in on women riders; we hear from the first black female police officer in a certain Northeastern city; and Boy Scouts start letting in girls.

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On this week’s 51%, we meet an author and activist whose anthology aims to draw readers closer to inclusion and understanding  hear from a military spouse about how frequent moves takes their toll, and writer Dr. Jeri Burns shares story about appropriate public displays.

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On this week’s 51%, find out how to steer clear of raising mean girls, hear about removing firearms from homes in cases of domestic violence, and meet the illustrator behind a comic strip and book series.

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On this week’s 51%, we speak with two women who use the power of art and culture in activism, and have a book out that documents the women’s march.

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On this week’s 51%, we meet a transgender woman who fought the health system, follow two young female scientists in evolution territory and hear from a storyteller about building on the body positivity movement.

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Rikki Bates fought to have her insurance pay for her gender affirmation surgery and in 2014 she won. But becoming the woman she always wanted to be put her at odds with her greatest passion: music. From Orleans, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Rachel Ishikawa brings us this story. This piece was produced at the Transom Story Workshop Fall 2017. (more…)

On this week’s 51%, a psychoanalyst shares her views on prioritizing motherhood, we hear from women working to see climate bills passed in their state and a sexual assault prevention program trains staff in bars and restaurants.

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The impact of a mother’s physical and emotional presence on a child’s wellbeing is a topic of great debate in the United States. In today’s society, the need for financial stability, coupled with a contemporary push for gender equality, has given birth to a rise in the number of parents working outside the home. But what effect does the daily physical absence of a mother really have on her child? Psychoanalyst Erica Komisar argues that research shows it is one of the triggers of social disorders in children. Her argument however, has become somewhat controversial. 51%’s Jessica Bloustein Marshall recently spoke with Komisar about her new book, “Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters,” and asked Komisar how she came to write the book. (more…)

On this week’s 51%, we look back at one of the women’s marches in New York and hear from the founder of a nonprofit that trains women journalists in the developing world.

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Back on January 20, in cities around the world, women demonstrated for the second straight year. 51%’s Patrick Garrett reports. (more…)

On this week’s 51%, we speak with the author of a book about the women who fought for the right to vote, and we hear how heroin addiction can trap women into becoming victims of human trafficking.

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In July 1848, attendees at the Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, demanded voting rights for women and, 72 years later, a young state legislator arrived at the Tennessee House of Representatives with a note from his mother and cast the tie-breaking vote that ratified the 19th Amendment. What happened in between is often overlooked but it is presented in a book entitled “Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote.” The author is Susan Zimet, executive director of nonprofit Hunger Action Network in New York and a former New Paltz town supervisor, the first woman in the post. She also is president of 2020: Project Women, a nonprofit created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Though the book is for everyone, it is written with a young reader audience in mind. Zimet tells us why. (more…)

On this week’s 51%, we hear about a woman’s struggle with clutter, listen to an artist’s rendition of #MeToo and meet a fashion designer whose appearance on a reality show altered her path in a way.

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Nineteen million Americans are affected by hoarding, and we’re going to meet one of them on the Cape of Massachusetts. Matthew Simonson brings us the story from Brewster of a woman who found help and dealt with her problems. (more…)