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Caption: Host Martha Burk
January 22 marks the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, when the court ruled abortion was legal under U.S....

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Many great women snagged honors this year, from athletics to movies, science and more, and we lost a few great ones too.  But one gets our personal...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The U.S. Women's Soccer Team won't be in the World Cup finals this year, but even if they were and took the trophy, it wouldn't have been their gre...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Host Martha Burk
I said I wasn’t gonna do it, but in the end I gave in. Went to see the Barbie movie. She’s still tall, thin, white, sporting signature long blond h...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Host Martha Burk
March 14 is date this year when U.S. working women finally reach the amount men earned by the end of last year. And that’s only when all women are...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2023
  • Length: 03:01
Caption: Ruth Alvarez-DeGolia, Credit: Mercado Global
Ruth Alvarez-DeGolia helps women artisans tap international markets through her social enterprise, Mercado Global -- allowing them to earn critical...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:58
Caption: Species: jodchumaryliz.newjerszeyish.corruptus, Credit: Susan Cook
As Maine's new Governor has formed a transition team. A "How to Honor the Public Trust Guide" might be helpful.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 08:59
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Writer, activist, filmmaker, and lecturer Jennifer Baumgardner explores abortion, sex, bisexuality, rape, single parenthood, and women’s power.

  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 24:20
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The 2015 Black Friday shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs is explored in this December 2 episode of KCMJ Community Radio’s ...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: :00
Caption: To an itsy bitsy spider...., Credit: Susan Cook
In the Department of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning), The River Is Wide offers a poem that could be sung to the tune from a tune in the public domai...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:50
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Government Policy Produces Record Levels of Economic Inequality in U.S.; A...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jan 01, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Ferguson Streets Explode in Anger After Grand Jury Opts Not to Indict Darr...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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A discussion about the problem with how TV talk-shows handle female guests.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 11:12
Caption: Phyllis Chesler
Great interview with Dr. Phyllis Chesler. Phyllis Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at City University of New York...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 57:43
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The fixation with being of 'fair' complexion would hurt Miss Davuluri - in India.

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Police officials escort a suspect (C), in the gang-rape of a female photographer, from a crime branch unit station in Mumbai., Credit: First Post
The most wanted cellphone in the country belongs to someone no one had heard of a week ago - a 21-year-old resident of Central Mumbai. The phone’s...

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the immigration debate and what it means for women.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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The House voted this week to ban abortions nationwide after 20 weeks. The Republican sponsor of the bill became the latest Republican to suggest ra...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nora Engel-Hall, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Nora Engel-Hall, 17, is a senior at University of Chicago Laboratory High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time th...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:25
Caption: Brooks College Prep's Lyrikally Xplicit, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Sex Sells is a team piece about the objectifying stereotypes of women, performed by the poets of Lyrikally Xplicit from Gwendolyn Brooks College Pr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
Caption: HOST PAM MCKISSICK
Produced for Weekend Edition programming, Pam McKissick Without Reserve is a one-hour talk show that delivers unfiltered commentary on the world of...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 47:15
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Every president, regardless of party, designates August 26 as Women's Equality Day, to commemorate women getting the vote in 1920. But do we reall...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2012
  • Length: 28:17
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A look at the latest strange detour in Campaign 2012...The War on Women...told thru narration, music and soundbites.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 56:15
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Despite the anti-discrimination laws, many pregnant workers are being legally fired for being pregnant.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
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The need to combat sexual harassment on the job is drawing lots of attention.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:53