PRX - Pieces for Topic: Women
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Jolynn Lee, Marine Corp Spouse of the Year 2018, shares her journey of helping her husband and family live with PTSD.
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 58:03
Kristen Christy Lange, Air Force Spouse of the Year 2018 share the joy and heartache on her journey as a military spouse.
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 58:04
By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:34
For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:19
Led by Raskova, three groups of women warriors (most of them about twenty-years-old or so) racked up a total record of 30,000 combat missions dropp...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:22
When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:04
Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:46
The radio series Genderless Justice starts with an historical overview of the use of sexual violence against women during times of war.
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 20:24
The second part examines the sexual violence being perpetrated against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo and during the genocide in Rwanda.
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 17:32
The third program examines the pivotal role women could and should be playing in peace-building.
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 20:02
The last in the four part series looks at the struggle of women around the world to create gender justice.
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 20:14
This Story is Free! Martin Bell, former BBC Correspondent, travels to Afghanistan and in this story looks at the community-based approaches to impr...
- Added: Oct 25, 2007
- Length: 05:51
