Andrea Mew

1 month ago | iwf.org | Mallory Sailer |Andrea Mew

Growing up, I didn’t realize how good I had it. As the product of a two-parent household where my father was the breadwinner and my mother stayed at home to take care of three daughters, I felt confined — nay, strangled — by the very thought that my adult life would look anything similar. Why would I want to be subservient to a man? I was thirsty for financial freedom and an “out” from suburbia, so each poke my SAHM gave me to “get a good education,” I took seriously.

1 month ago | theconservateur.com | Caroline Downey |Andrea Mew

Growing up, I didn’t realize how good I had it. As the product of a two-parent household where my father was the breadwinner and my mother stayed at home to take care of three daughters, I felt confined — nay, strangled — by the very thought that my adult life would look anything similar. Why would I want to be subservient to a man? I was thirsty for financial freedom and an “out” from suburbia, so each poke my SAHM gave me to “get a good education,” I took seriously.

1 month ago | iwfeatures.com | Andrea Mew

After two decades in the United States Secret Service (USSS), L.M. Caheb* had already served on the president’s detail and climbed the ladder to become a GS- 14 supervisor, a major milestone signifying elite leadership status and high-stakes responsibilities. But when he vied for a lateral reassignment in 2022 to a large field office in which there were two vacancies for which he should have been a shoo-in, he said he was passed up for much younger, less qualified, lower-ranked agents.

2 months ago | iwfeatures.com | Andrea Mew

Payton McNabb is no stranger to the very real consequences of radical gender ideology. In 2022, she had to kiss her collegiate athletic future goodbye after a male volleyball opponent spiked a ball into her head during a high school match, causing a traumatic brain injury. In the years since, McNabb and other women’s rights advocates have made immense progress in the fight for fairness in women’s sports. But she has continued to face pushback for promoting common sense.

2 months ago | iwfeatures.com | Andrea Mew

Jolene Riessen is no stranger to hardship. After losing her husband to cancer six years ago, she took over the family farm in northwest Iowa with her two adult sons. For her, farming is more than a business –– it’s a generational investment. “My husband and I worked hard for years to buy farmland with the goal of passing it down to our children,” Riessen told IW Features. “Now, I’m doing everything I can to make sure my sons have the same opportunity.”But that dream is in jeopardy.