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Ina Grau is the name of a boutique shoe line by Luisa Garcia-Gomez and Crystal Quinn. The women harmoniously combine their talents to create a coll...
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 03:14
In Bellevue, Washington a group of women meet once a month to discuss their cultural differences and similarities. The conversations are transformi...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 08:43
Program for the week of April 7, 2013
- Added: Apr 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
For our sixtieth (but far from the last) episode, we speak with Leslye Obiora, PhD, a person committed to community and women’s equality. Law profe...
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 28:02
Jamaica Kincaid talks about the influence of her birthplace, the Caribbean island of Antigua, on her use of language and story telling, even though...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 1
India has come under close scrutiny lately for its poor treatment of women and girls. Yet, this is a time when a growing number of women are enjoyi...
Bought by KUT, KGOU, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 11:03
- Purchases: 3
An amazing story of how women gained power in Brazil.
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 59:51
We look back at the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 10 years later. For Iraqis, for the US military, and for the anti-war movement: how have things changed,...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In DC's suburbs, Yasmin, who is Bangladeshi, gets a hair cut at a salon that accommodates Muslim women.
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 04:20
The English Comedy Club, an expat theatre group in Brussels, Belgium, performs Calendar Girls this month. Alison Turner drops in to one of their f...
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 10:35
They and their husbands helped to form the 14th of June Movement, named for the 1959 organized uprising against the Trujillo regime.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:55
After re-establishing her power, whenever the armies of other Indian lords attacked Jhansi, Lakshmibai was reportedly seen riding horseback into ba...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 03:11
Six countries and countless meetings with radical women later, Ngoyi boldly returned to South Africa, expecting to be arrested -- which she, needle...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:18
One amazing woman, Anila Ali, is transforming the stereotypes of Muslims in America through her work as a teacher, journalist, author, and activist...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 08:04
For International Women’s Day and the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster listen again as three prominent female activists tell their stor...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Ethnically Parsi, Diana grew up in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and went to boarding school there. She talks about how she and her family have ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 03:09
A brutal gang rape on a New Delhi bus has sparked global outrage and national soul-searching in India. Many are calling for the death penalty for t...
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 02:02
Africa's economies are growing fast, and this is partly linked to entrepreneurship. Women make up a large number of African entrepreneurs, so when ...
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 12:35
From: Jennifer Dunn
Series: China's One Child Policy: Stories of Struggles with its Unintended Consequences
Series: China's One Child Policy: Stories of Struggles with its Unintended Consequences
Pressed by paternal grandparents to have a boy, couples in China engage in creative ways of tricking the system and having a son without openly vio...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
From: Jennifer Dunn
Series: China's One Child Policy: Stories of Struggles with its Unintended Consequences
Series: China's One Child Policy: Stories of Struggles with its Unintended Consequences
Since the implementation of the one child policy in China 3 decades ago, a severe gender imbalance has emerged. This imbalance is evidence of famil...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 2
With Indian parents, a childhood spent in Pakistan, and now living in America, Nazleen has a unique perspective on Indian dress. She tells us her s...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 03:48
Plastic surgery is growing in Afghanistan and more and more women see it as the key to their fate.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 27, 2013
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
Today on Voices of Our World we speak with two women who may provide some insight into whether or not the effects of the so-called “year of the wom...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 28:00
In Berlin, Cathy Byrd meets Luci Westphal, a German filmmaker based in New York and Berlin, to talk about Luci's moving postcards and her latest do...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 19:17
By Nancy Alvarez.
I can’t stop thinking about Malala Yusafzay, the young girl who was shot in the head in Pakistan because she spoke out abo...
- Added: Dec 14, 2012
- Length: 07:44
