women

In 2003, an organization was founded with a mission of tackling the unmet needs of socially and economically vulnerable young women in Washtenaw County. Now, Girls Group is celebrating 20 years of empowering young women to achieve emotional and economic self-sufficiency by ensuring they graduate from high school and begin their college or career journeys. Sue Schooner is the founder and executive director of Girls Group and shared the organization's story with WEMU's David Fair.

Michigan has finished its latest step in modernizing its national guard facilities. Colin Jackson has more.

Our communities are still in the process of building a foundation in which girls and young women are offered equal opportunity to educational and career opportunities. It becomes even more difficult when personal trauma or family finances stand in the way. Addressing those issues and supplementing existing opportunity is the function of the Ann Arbor-based, "Girls Group." WEMU's David Fair explores the issues and solutions with founder and executive director, Sue Schooner.

While there is still work to be done, women continue to shatter glass ceilings. More women are taking on the challenge of entrepeneurship and doing so…

Getting older can be difficult for some women.But 89.1 WEMU'S Lisa Barry reports on a new study out of the University of Michigan that found for the…