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Cedar Grove
From: Catherine Moore
Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Dream Job
From: Daniel Wanschura
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What exactly is a dream job? Is it one that pays a lot of money? One where you don’t have to do much work? Is it one that makes you famous? …Or, is...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:58
Lilian Alfonso, Metal Scrapper
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
Venus, Daytime Stripper
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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A stripper nicknamed "Venus" dances during the breakfast shift in Downtown Los Angeles.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:27
Day Job 5: Fear And The Flying Trapeze
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: A trapeze student, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Kari Kirkland stands on a narrow platform high above the ground. As a trapeze instructor, her job is to convince students to jump off that platform...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Delmarva Public Media, and KUOW


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 16:18
  • Purchases: 3
Sustaining Activism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Emma Sokoloff-Rubin & friends
This is the story of a father-daughter research team who spent 10-years studying the Brazilian Women’s Movement of the 1980s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Stamp Out Sexual Harrassment!
From: Dick Meister
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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
Sen. Julie Lassa, Madison, March 12, 2011
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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Sen. Julie Lassa addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon her return to Madison, WI on March 12, 2011.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:51
Women Still Being Shortchanged
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It's way past time that we updated the law that supposedly guarantees women workers pay equal to that of men.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:16
54 Years
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The nation's last sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine closed its doors in April 2010. Lela Anderson worked at the cannery for fifty-four years.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 07:46
STOP MISTREATING WORKING WOMEN!
From: Dick Meister
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Working women have been particularly hard hit by the global recession, in part because of long-standing discrimination.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:11
Obama's Promise to Women
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
President Obama's State of the Union promise to help women win pay equality has been largely overlooked.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:44
On My Own Two Feet
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Entering her 19th year as a truck driver, Debbie Seelow is no burly man, but rather a self-described "grandma who loves to knit and crochet".

Bought by WABE, KZYX, WNIJ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 7
Commentary: An RX for Nurses
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A new alliance is seeking to unionize nurses and greatly improve the health care system.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2009
  • Length: 02:29
7. Kym Tuvim. Your piano teacher has a secret talent.
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)
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Day Job is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:10
3. Kinoko, YMCA staff and musical chip bender
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)
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Dayjob is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 03:12
Commentary: Pay Women What They're Worth
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It's Equal It's Equal Pay Day again, time to remind us of the discrimination that keeps working women's pay far behind that of men.ps workiIt

  • Added: Apr 17, 2008
  • Length: 02:37
Reporting from the Red Light
From: Seattle Globalist
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A reporter's personal and ethical journey through Kolkata's red light districts.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2006
  • Length: 08:44
Gloria Steinem lecture Hour 2
From: KUOW
Series: Speaker's Forum
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Hour 2 of two-hour lecture "If Women Mattered" by Gloria Steinem

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: May 17, 2006
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Every Ship is Different
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Board an oil tanker on its way into Portland Harbor with harbor pilot Captain Susan Clark.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 2
It's Just A Job
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Veronica McNally reflects on life and work on her daily walk to her job at Pantheon Guitars in Lewiston, Maine.

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WYBC


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 3
"Madam, When You're Going to Have a Baby, You Don't Take a Number"
From: Johanna (Jones) Franzel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A few days before she gave birth, Elizabeth learned she was carrying not one baby, but two.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2005
  • Length: 04:09
Rugged and Beautiful
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Visit with two female WWII Liberty Ship welders from South Portland, Maine.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Yellowstone Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
City Lights
From: Jennifer Dunn
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Members of China's floating population recount their hopes and challenges as rural-urban migrants.

Bought by WBEZ and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 27, 2004
  • Length: 20:37
  • Purchases: 2
A Stop Along the Way
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
There's a love affair off Interstate 95 in Bangor, Maine.

Bought by WMPG, KFAI Minneapolis, SALTcast Podcast, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2004
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 4