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Bold Women Of Montana - 0303 - Women's Protective Union
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women Of Montana - 0302 - Myrna Loy
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women of Montana - 0301 - Eloise Cobell
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Black History Month -- Remember the Ladies
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It's Black History Month, and that means the gals along with the guys. Visit two women you probably never heard of who were "firsts" in their field...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:47
AMOS 23.31: Humans Can Echolocate, Too, 2/13/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Humans Can Echolocate, Too

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
Pride Month: Imara Jones, The Anti-Trans Hate Machine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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2022 will go down in history for the number of anti-trans bills introduced into state legislatures. Over 300 bills banning books, medical treatment...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMPG, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Women's History Month: The Feminists Taking on Philanthropy during Covid Say Gender Justice Requires more than Money
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently made a splash by donating nearly $3 billion to more than 280 nonprofits working in ...

Bought by KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Is it worth it to buy environmentally-friendly feminine hygiene products?
From: Possibly
Caption: Period products!, Credit: Fatima Husain
If you flip through magazines or social media today, you might come across advertisements for environmentally-friendly feminine hygiene products. W...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
94: Hand Stitched Computers
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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During the 1960s when we were racing to the moon, computing tech made a huge leap. Computers had to be small to fit in the Apollo capsules and it w...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Slow Flower Movement Changing the Floral Industry
From: renee wilde
Series: COUNTY LINES
Caption: Rosalie and Katie Loading up Flowers for Their Wedding, Credit: renee wilde
In 1991, President George Herbert Walker Bush was looking for ways to stem the illegal drug trade in Colombia, by giving more incentives for legal ...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 04:55
A Former Pharmaceutical Sales Rep Expresses Her Belief that Vaccines are Harmful
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
Tahli Kentoff, a former pharmaceutical sales rep and now certified master herbalist, expresses her belief that all pharmaceuticals, including vacci...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
73: Bridget 'Biddy' Mason
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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At the age of 42, Bridget Mason won a court case in California that freed her and her daughters from slavery. She went on to become a California re...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:14
57: Stagecoach Mary
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Born in 1832, Mary Fields was the first African-American female Star Route mail carrier in the United States. Wearing two guns that she sometimes b...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
37: Violet Jessup
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The unsinkable Violet. 3 ships, one woman who survived them all.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
Gender & STEM Achievement
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Girls get slightly higher grades in science and math worldwide than boys, but fewer enter STEM professions.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
How Sputnik Sent Women to College
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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Today, women outnumber men on college campuses, but that wasn't always the case. Before the 1960s, colleges routinely used gender quotas to suppres...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 3
The Dead Ladies Show Podcast Ep 5: Leonora Carrington
From: Susan Stone
Series: The Dead Ladies Show Podcast
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TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? Except with Dead Ladies. The Dead Ladies Show is a live event in Berlin that tells the stories ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 26:34
The Dead Ladies Show Podcast Ep 2: Fanny Blankers-Koen
From: Susan Stone
Series: The Dead Ladies Show Podcast
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TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? Except with Dead Ladies. The Dead Ladies Show is a live event in Berlin that tells the stories ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 27:12
Everything You Want to Know About Population: Bill Ryerson #213
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Population Media Center President Bill Ryerson corrects misconceptions, debunks myths, and shares a variety of surprising facts about overpopulatio...

Bought by KTRL, KMUD, and KTRL


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
History Repeats ... Everyday. Bubbles, Bombs, and a Woman President
From: Teosson Wells
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The first woman "U.S. President" happened 100 years ago.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 27:40
"Shout, Sister, Shout: The Sister Rosetta Tharpe Story
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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An interview/music mix with Gayle Wald, author of "Shout, Sister, Shout. The story of Rock and Roll trailblazer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe"

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUW, and WSGE


  • Added: Mar 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:26:14
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Lucille Horn and Barbara Horn
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Lucille (L) and Barbara Horn (R)
Lucille Horn, 95, tells her daughter, Barbara, about the baby incubator exhibit at Coney Island that saved her life.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 3
A Brief History of Women in Comics
From: Bitch Media
Series: Popaganda
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Women have been making comics since the beginning. This engaging history tracks the gender dynamics of the comics industry for 120 years, highlight...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 21:39
  • Purchases: 2
Are Women Better Off in Some States Than Others?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
AARP has done a feature on best places to retire for years, and Time magazine does a similar analysis on “best places to live.” But nobody has don...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
Under the Law
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Mural of Rosie the Riveter, Sacramento, Calif., Credit: Library of Congress
Producer Nina Earnest and legal scholar Lea VanderVelde unpack the tort of seduction — one of the few claims women could make to challenge sexual h...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 1