PRX - Pieces for Topic: Women

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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
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Women are the main caretakers of the sick and the majority of nurses all around the world are women; therefore, women are more exposed to some infe...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: :59
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Buyers shell out a lot less on online auctions for when the seller is female.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Women who have experienced abuse and violence and have mental health problems are more likely to engage in health-risk behaviors. Bill Latimer find...

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: :59
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An estimated 1 in 5 US men experience physical, sexual, or psychological intimate partner violence in their lifetimes. Bill Latimer finds out on Pu...

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: :59
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Our ideas about how the anatomical differences in male and female brains explain the behaviors of men and women may be based on bias rather than sc...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A brainwave-triggered implant which could potentially turn on genes controlling the production of therapeutic proteins., Credit: March Folcher/ETH Zurich
Could brainwaves one day trigger an implant that stops epilepsy and chonic pain episodes before they begin?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week is proving to be one of the most influential for women’s reproductive rights in Indiana. Earlier today, Governor Mike Pence signed into l...

  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 08:59
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SB371 imposing increased sanctions on health clinics that provide abortion services passed this Indiana State Senate yesterday. Despite the nationa...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 10:14
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About 12 percent of women develop breast cancer. But years of studies have shown that for female flight attendants, nurses, factory workers, and ot...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Women’s role in the national economy has been a running theme of this year’s election season. Following a newly released White House report from th...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 08:11
  • Purchases: 1