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Dukes v. Walmart One Year Later: Where do Women Stand?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
In June 2011 the Supreme Court ruled that the 1.5 million women suing Walmart for sex discrimination could not band together as a class in one larg...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
Title IX at 40 - An Interview with Billie Jean King
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Equal Time series host Martha Burk interviews tennis legend Billie Jean King, to mark the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the law that opened sports ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 28:25
  • Purchases: 1
Violence Against Women Act Stalls - NOW Condemns House Version
From: Illinois News Connection
Caption: PRX default Piece image
CHICAGO - The Violence Against Women Act has been renewed twice with bipartisan support since originally passed in 1994, but this year's reauthoriz...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Violence Against Women Act Stalls – Mich. NOW "Condemns" House version
From: Michigan News Connection
Caption: PRX default Piece image
LANSING, Mich. - The Violence Against Women Act has been renewed twice with bipartisan support since originally passed in 1994, but this year's rea...

  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:02
Bush & Cheney: Did They Cheat Justice?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious speaks with Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman, former District Attorney of Brooklyn, New York and author of Cheating Justic...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Indie on Demand Reviews HIT SO HARD
From: Daniel Persons
Series: The Indie on Demand Movie Review
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A review of the rock documentary about Hole drummer Patty Schemel.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
A New Western
From: With Good Reason
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A playwright’s new web-Western is part of television’s jump to the internet. Allison Quantz has details.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Conversations with Women Making History/ Nancy Pelosi & Zainab Salbi
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Nancy Pelosi
Martha Burk interviews Nancy Pelosi, first female Speaker of the House, and Zainab Salbi, best selling author and founder of Women for Women Intern...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 56:48
The Plight Of The Pregnant Worker
From: Dick Meister
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Despite the anti-discrimination laws, many pregnant workers are being legally fired for being pregnant.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
Child Brides & Drug Lords
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Opium, child brides, drug lords and their effect on current life in Afghanistan is the topic of this week’s Radio Curious when we visit with Afghan...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Roe v. Wade at 39/ Where Women Stand in 2012
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Sarah Weddington, Credit: Weddington Center
Equal Time series host Martha Burk interviews Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued the Roe v. Wade case legalizing abortion in the United Stat...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT


  • Added: Jan 05, 2012
  • Length: 56:48
  • Purchases: 2
Stamp Out Sexual Harrassment!
From: Dick Meister
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The need to combat sexual harassment on the job is drawing lots of attention.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:53
A Conversation with Brenda Wineapple
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 1
Tony Bennett Duets II
From: Joyride Media
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Tony Bennett and his duet partners (Amy Winehouse, Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin, John Mayer and more) discuss the art of collaboration on timeless ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRFA-LP, Troy Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2011
  • Length: 01:28:00
  • Purchases: 19
Rachel Barton Pine's Tribute to Maud Powell
From: Fred Flaxman
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Violinist Rachel Barton Pine pays tribute to America's first internationally famous woman violin virtuoso.

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 1
Why I Really Like This Book
From: Kate Macdonald
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a weekly podcast for curious readers about forgotten books

  • Added: Aug 07, 2011
  • Length: 01:21:44
A NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: DR. HELEN CALDICOTT
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Dr. Helen Caldicott describes how the nuclear disasters that began in Japan on March 11, 2011, with the massive 9.0 point earthquake and resulting ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Can A Woman Beat Hoffa?
From: Dick Meister
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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
Beyond the Vagina Monologues
From: Bioneers
Caption: Eve Ensler
For a decade, the award-winning play The Vagina Monologues has provided a startling window into the conflicted complexity of women’s relationships ...

Bought by WLPR , KCMJ Community Radio, KSKQ, and WPTC


  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Women Still Being Shortchanged
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
Talk of the Town
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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This is a story about finding forgiveness and acceptance in a small town.

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, PRX Remix, The Story, KUOW, and WMPG


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 11:29
  • Purchases: 5
STOP MISTREATING WORKING WOMEN!
From: Dick Meister
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Working women have been particularly hard hit by the global recession, in part because of long-standing discrimination.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:11
Barbara McClintock - Nobel Laurate
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story of Barbara McClintock's Nobel Prize winning work

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:24
Housework
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The introducation of technology has not reduced the amount of time spent on housework.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:18
Constance Tipper: Engineer
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Every time I ride in a jet, I look out the window and watch the wing. When I see it's still there, I say a silence thanks to Constance Tipper

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:33

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