PRX - Pieces for Topic: Women

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

294 results


Caption: Domestic workers in Texas., Credit: Flickr user: Nuevo Anden
With the passage of New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, workers are now organizing in California and other states to win basic righ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01

  • Added: Mar 20, 2012
  • Length: :00
Caption: Rally in support of the Ohio Prevention First Act, Credit: creative commons Flickr user ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pro-abortion rally, Credit: Flickr user: ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WCSU-FM and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Rear Adm. Wendi Carpenter congratulates Lt. j.g. Carolyn Bloomfield for earning her carrier qualifications during the Women in Aviation Conference.
Juggling work and motherhood is always hard, but imagine if you were an admiral in the Navy.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2011
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
As reports of Qaddafi soldiers raping women emerge from Libya, we talk to feminist Gloria Steinem about the root causes of sexual violence against ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 08:01
Piece image
When Congolese journalist Chouchou Namegabe first started reporting on sexual abuse in her country, the language didn't even have a word for "rape."

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:33
Caption: Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in Pakistan.
Acclaimed Pakistani filmmaker and journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ("Children of the Taliban") talks with us about the insidious tactics employed b...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 09:09
Caption: A Moro rebel in Sultan Kudarat, Southern Philippines, on Feb. 19, 2008., Credit: Mark Navales
Annabelle Abaya, who has served as the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process in the Philippines and founded The Conflict Resolution Group Found...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stella Sabiiti speaking on a panel in Austria in 2006., Credit: Frank Helmrich
Through the African Union’s Peace and Security Department, activist Stella Sabiiti works with rebels who inflict violence on civilians in conflict ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:53
Piece image
Why would a woman join an armed group? Tufts Professor Dyan Mazurana talks to us about how a cycle of violence is much more to blame for women's pa...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
Piece image
Professor Joshua Goldstein debunks the idea that biology hardwires men for fighting wars and women for staying on the sidelines on this week's podc...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:30
Piece image
Playwright and activist Lynn Nottage explains how after interviewing survivors of Congo's civil war in 2004, she was inspired to write "Ruined," wh...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
Caption: A meeting for rape victims near Walungu, South Kivu in DRC in 2001.
For our first podcast episode, we go to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has been called the "rape capital of the world." Jocelyn Ke...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 09:39
Caption: Bunnies posing at Dr. Sketchy's, Credit: Justin Moore
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is not your typical drawing session. It’s held in a bar, for starters, and features models ranging from circus perfor...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 03, 2011
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Summer tourism with a twist is the theme this week on the World Vision Report. In Nepal, we follow a street vendor who sells an exotic musical ins...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
If you get sick in southern Sudan your chances of dying escalate. Health care is a rare thing in that part of the world. This week, the World Vis...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Two Miami University sororities, Alpha Xi Delta and Pi Beta Phi, were both suspended from Miami University after, to put it lightly, some scandalou...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 03:04
Piece image
Dr. Alan Fleischman, medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation, joins us today.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2011
  • Length: 25:33
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Less than one hundred years ago, women voted for the first time in a national election. Two months ago, Lauren Peterson headed to the polls for a s...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:48
Piece image
For most women, the way their pregnancy, labor, and recuperation is handled by the correctional system has a lot to be desired. But there are some...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com/, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
What happens when a women gives birth behind bars? Usually those babies are sent home with family members or put into foster care. But some prison...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 14:25
  • Purchases: 4
Piece image
ABC “World News” Anchor Diane Sawyer Joins Marvin Kalb to Discuss Women in Media, Democracy and the Press and the Future of Journalism at the Openi...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
Piece image
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, joins us today for an in-depth discussion on the organization's role in...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 26:08
Piece image
In the 40 years since Title IX was enacted girls’ participation in high school and college sports has risen over 900 percent. Y-Press radio produce...

Bought by WXDU and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 2