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June Wispelwey, executive director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), shares what she's learned from a challenging career.
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 04:47
Madeleine Jacobs, executive director and CEO of the American Chemical Society, tells the story of how she got her first job at Chemical & Engineeri...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 04:18
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by KUOW and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 26:21
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
Staff Reporter Kenya, speaks about the significant role her mother has had on her life.
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 02:26
This month's Save America's Treasures recording, features the late, great poet Adrienne Rich, known for her perfectly crafted, award winning poems....
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Mitch Skinner goes to San Diego Comic-Con and talks to men who write well-rounded female characters.
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 05:04
Radio Curious visits with Sally Roesch Wagner, a historian and chautauqua scholar who portrays suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage lived from 182...
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 29:01
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
A woman arms herself before leaving for work; an 18 year old girl spends three months in an Alaskan cannery; and that woman on the phone is not who...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Aspen Public Radio, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 3
In this episode we talk about a lesser known tale, The Armless Maiden. How does she get her arms chopped off you ask? Maybe her dad does it to save...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 19:56
This show covers a variety of topics including medicine, music, an unconventional road trip and summer camp for grownups. Program Directors: please...
Bought by WRVO
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 01:29:40
- Purchases: 1
Catskin is part two of our series on tales of the persecuted heroine. If you think Cinderella had it rough, this girl's dad will do anything to mar...
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 18:18
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
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Maggie Kuhn left no stone unturned to leave the world in a better state than she found it. No topic was off limits. In fact, she even talked about ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:50
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:32
We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:39
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
After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:26
