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In 2009 Lilly Ledbetter learned she had been paid 40% less than men in the same Goodyear Tire & Rubber job. It was a long slog, but she won, and wo...
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Ray interviews Aminatta Forna and Chernor Bah: two Sierra Leoneans who are working to rebuild their country after growing up in the shadow of civil...
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Aug 10, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
"...one fitting way to honor the historic justice would be to take action on some unfinished feminist business. Justice Ginsburg is on my mind toda...
- Added: Sep 22, 2020
- Length: 04:00
There’s an old saying “be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.” That applies in spades to Republicans who have voted over 50 ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jun 19, 2015
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
The U.S. Senate convened on January 6th, with 13 new members. Some people think 13 is a lucky number, and some say the opposite. When it comes to ...
- Added: Jan 08, 2015
- Length: 02:30
The Supreme Court session starts in October, and some hot button issues are likely to be heard this term. The hottest may be corporate control of ...
- Added: Oct 03, 2013
- Length: 02:30
President Obama got a short reprieve when Russia put forward a plan to avoid a U.S. missile strike on Syria by sequestering Syria’s chemical weapon...
- Added: Sep 11, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the anniversary of women's suffrage, how far women have come, and what's left to b...
- Added: Aug 15, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Every president, regardless of party, designates August 26 as Women's Equality Day, to commemorate women getting the vote in 1920. But do we reall...
- Added: Aug 25, 2012
- Length: 28:17
It's been a hundred years since women textile workers waged one of the most important strikes in US labor history.
- Added: Jul 05, 2012
- Length: 05:16
Despite the anti-discrimination laws, many pregnant workers are being legally fired for being pregnant.
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 04:42
It may seem highly unlikely, but it's true: a woman may unseat Jimmy Hoffa Jr. as president of the huge, corruption-ridden Teamsters Union.
- Added: Jun 16, 2011
- Length: 03:34
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
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
