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Caption: Bemidji Women's March 2019, Credit: Katie Carter
For the third year, Women's Marches took place across the country recently. More than 100 people marched in Bemidji, despite the frigid temps. Ma...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 10:35
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This week on the show: The world's largest airport, an gigantic bridge, an new canal: ambitous infrastructure projects are supposed to make Istanb...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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Women are about twice as likely to suffer from depression as men. It’s the leading cause of disability worldwide.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 09:05
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Women are about twice as likely to suffer from depression as men. Poor and minority women are less likely to get help than affluent or white women.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 09:02
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Amy Hagstrom Miller of Whole Woman’s Health is on a mission to make abortions safe and stigma-free. The journey has taken her to the Supreme Court.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / University at Buffalo engineering professor Liesl Folks leads the NAVIGATE Project at UB, Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / University at Buffalo engineering professor Liesl Folks leads the NAVIGATE Project at UB
The STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and math – have traditionally been dominated by men. And that can make it tough for women to bre...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WSKG, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 5
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On this episode of Culture Clique we sit down with Laura Sutherland, the Safe Harbor Regional Navigator for Southeast Minnesota. The Safe Harbor Pr...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 21:00
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An in depth discussion of the historical social implications of misogony

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2018
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Do women make better leaders in companies? The answer is likely not surprising but the statistics are not exactly in line of what you might think, ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2017
  • Length: 05:01
Caption: Rear Admiral June Ryan, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
The first woman to lead the Coast Guard district that covers the Great Lakes is retiring Wednesday. Details on her exit -- and who’s taking her pl...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:09
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Mabel Johnson (right) and daughter Betty, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
75 years ago, the SPARS were created to take the job of thousands of Coast Guardsmen who had to leave their posts to fight in World War II. 102-ye...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WOSU, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:11
  • Purchases: 4
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Current Indiana law already requires a minor who does not have parental consent for an abortion to petition the court for the right to access the p...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 07:58
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Senate Healthcare Bill Will Cause 22 Million to Lose Health Insurance, Ten...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nevada Littlewolf, Credit: Bush Foundation
Nevada Littlewolf is the first Anishinaabe woman to serve on the Virginia, MN city council and a leader in in many respects. We spoke with Nevada ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 17:35
Caption: Tracey Taylor
Tracey Taylor and Lance Knobel are the co-founders of the "hyper-local" news site Berkeleyside.com and Uncharted, The Berkeley Festival of Ideas. W...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WRIR, KWMR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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This week is our introduction to the topic of women, health, and prison. We speak with some prisoners from the Indiana Women's Prison about their e...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Tobacco Card from 1887, Credit: JOSEPH MAKKOS / NOLA DNA
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a profile of Eliza Jane Nicholson, a small town poet who became the first woman publisher of a major metrop...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 10:24
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Roma Torre is the Emmy Award winning anchor of Time Warner Cable's NY1 news and the theater critic for NY1 On Stage. She has used her celebrity to ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:05
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Michele Bratcher Goodwin's investigative research in human trafficking, the black market for body parts, reproductive rights, the politics of organ...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Women leaders in the oil and gas industry are using networking to mend the gender gap in the profession.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 03:31
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Mental health is a hot topic in collegiate athletics right now after cases of depression and death among student-athletes have recently gotten nati...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 07:50
Caption: Host Martha Burk
First of five broadcasts on what's at stake for women in the upcoming elections. Today's topic: Some candidates are promising to repeal Obamacare ...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Sister Luise Radlmeier visiting South Sudanese women she mentored now living in the USA
The Dawn Will Break is a documentary that is currently in production. It tells the story of some South Sudanese young women, who after fleeing the ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 1