Women

Ready to quit your job? We’ve got tactics for that

Many of us have fantasies of making a dramatic exit from our jobs. That final triumphant showdown with our boss. Strutting down the hallway clutching a box with our possessions, head held high. Kerosene and a lit match thrown behind the shoulder as we leave.

Crime

20 years behind bars, now helping youth stay out of prison

In 1999, Andrea Altheimer of Seattle was sentenced to nearly 40 years in prison. She was convicted for shooting and wounding her ex-boyfriend after she found him with another woman. But this year the King County Prosecutor’s office concluded that her sentence was excessive, and there were grounds to cut it in half. She was released in March from the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor.

Law & Courts

"Abortion is safe, abortion is necessary, abortion is health care."

Abortion rights activists crammed into City Hall Plaza protesting restrictions in other states.

World

South Korean Women 'Escape The Corset' And Reject Their Country's Beauty Ideals

Amid intense social pressure to conform, a photographer in Seoul aims "to destroy the socially defined idea of a woman." Women in her photos wear short hair and no makeup.

Science

This astronaut spoke to us from space: 200 experiments, including on herself

Lt. Col. Anne McLain has traveled a long way to get to her current jobsite -- from Spokane to West Point to flying helicopter combat missions in the U.S. Army, then on into space.

Health

For sexual assault victims , it's a struggle to just get evidence collected

After a sexual assault, if a survivor chooses to get a rape kit, they first have to find the right clinic to actually get one. For the third time, U.S. Senator Patty Murray is sponsoring a bill that seeks to change that and improve the care survivors get at medical centers nationwide.