Cincinnati Edition

Women make up roughly half of the workforce but a far smaller percentage of the executive roles in American companies and they still earn 80 percent of what men earn for equivalent work. Adding to the gender gap, employers can find it hard to retain female employees, even among top talent, after women start families.

A routine exam leads doctors to discover a blood clot above Arizona Senator John McCain's left eye. A biopsy reveals the senator has glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor. Each year 12,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with this type tumor. Most die within two years.

The United States will experience a total solar eclipse on August 21, its first in 99 years. The eclipse path of totality – total darkness – will cut across the U.S. from Newport, Oregon to McClellanville, South Carolina. One of the closest cities to Cincinnati to experience the total eclipse is Hopkinsville, Kentucky, about a four-hour drive south.

Each Friday on Cincinnati Edition we review and discuss the people, stories and events that are affecting the Tri-state.

Bold Fusion 2017 , produced by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber , takes place August 17. The annual summit provides an opportunity for young, creative professionals to connect with one another and learn how to advance their career, their company and our community. This year Bold Fusion celebrates #EPICFAILS , how to understand, plan for, learn from and rebound from failures.

For its continuing On the Ground series featuring area neighborhoods, Soapbox Cincinnati has been taking an in-depth look at Covington, Kentucky . The second largest city on our region, Covington has been experiencing a revitalization during the last several years, attracting new employers and residents, along with major new construction and historic building-repurposing projects.

The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden will present its annual Plant Trials Day symposium on August 31. The all-day event provides information on the plants proven to do well in our region, along with presentations by horticulture industry experts.

Few of us like to think about death, much less talk about it. But planning for the inevitable can help ease some of the emotional pain.

An illicit body trade proliferated in 19 th century Cincinnati, but this business wasn't in the red-light district, it was in local cemeteries. Medical schools in Ohio and nationwide needed cadavers for study but no laws allowed for body donation. Doctors turned to grave robbers to do the dirty work. Grave robbing was so rampant that inventors created unusual contraptions for protecting the dead. A high-profile case of body snatching finally led to legalized body donation in Ohio.

Xavier University has launched the Xavier Center for Artificial Intelligence , an effort to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence to improve health care. The Center’s first major initiative will be the AI Summit, taking place on August 24 and 25 at Xavier's Cintas Center.