Episode 30: Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII by Pauli Murray and Mary Eastwood
“[They] deny a particular group equality of opportunity…””
Episode 29: “Keep the Damned Women Out: The Struggle for Coeducation” by Nancy Weiss Malkiel
“the range of sex discrimination that was built into the fabric of American society.”
Episode 28: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
“The only way for a woman…to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.”
Episodes 25-27: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
“One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.”
Episode 24: “The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating A Caring Economics” by Riane Eisler
“policymakers always seem to find money for control and domination – for prisons, weapons, wars.”
Episode 23: “Open Letter to the Women of the World” and “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” by Eleanor Roosevelt
“We call on the governments of the world to encourage women everywhere to take a more active part”
Episode 22: “Killing the Angel in the House” by Virginia Woolf
“Man must be pleased; but him to please / Is woman’s pleasure”
Episode 21: “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Episode 19: “The Morality of Birth Control” by Margaret Sanger
“Every woman should be absolute mistress of her own body.”
Episode 18: “The Fundamental Principle of a Republic” by Anna Howard Shaw
“Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men’s work at half men’s wages”