Episode 64: For the Love of Men, by Liz Plank
“Boys don’t cry. Be strong. Don’t let him know it hurt you.”
Episode 63: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World, by Melinda French Gates
“Outrage can save one girl or two, she told me. Only empathy can change the system.”
Episode 62: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez
“There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid”
Episode 61: Women and Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard
“Women in power are seen as…taking something to which they are not quite entitled.”
Episode 60: Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, by Angela Saini
“Removing stereotype threat can improve both men’s and women’s academic achievement.”
Episode 59: Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, by Peggy Orenstein
“…girls learn to suppress their own feelings in order to avoid conflict, to preserve the peace…”
Episode 58: Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter
“the single best indicator that an unmarried middle-class woman will end up bankrupt.”
Episode 57: Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit
“women fight wars on two fronts, one for…the putative topic…and one simply for the right to speak”
Episode 56: Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay
“to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you’re not imagining things.”
Episode 55: feminism is for everybody, by bell hooks
“Females were as socialized to believe sexist thinking and values as males…”