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1) #MeToo
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English
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Every day, about 50 people are sexually assaulted or raped in the workplace in the U.S. While the entertainment industry and the political world have been in the headlines, the problem extends to those who work in hotels, clean offices, serve food. Judy Woodruff talks to Bernice Yeung of Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting and Alejandra Valles of SEIU United Service Workers West.
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Coverture severely restricted women’s political, financial, and personal rights and was imported to the American colonies as a part of English common law. It affected the lives of all American women and although it has been diminished over time vestiges of it remain even today.
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Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, is considered the most powerful woman in American politics. Pelosi was the first female Speaker of the House and the first woman to be third in line for the presidency. Among her greatest accomplishments in government was the passage of the Affordable Care Act/Obama Care, providing millions of Americans access to medical insurance. She shares what it was like wielding such political...
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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This program offers deeply moving, inspiring, and empowering profiles of three diverse, heroic women who experienced, survived, and thrived through some of life’s harshest trials — racism, disease, poverty, war, and child abuse, emerging through the spirit of entrepreneurship. Their stories demonstrates the power of refusing to fall victim to their life challenges. One segmetn profiles a woman of color who rose from poverty, racism, teen pregnancy,...
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English
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In this program, Hazel Henderson and Wayne Silby, lawyer and founder of the Calvert Group of socially responsible mutual funds discuss where these investing trends Silby pioneered, are heading. They discuss how these trends evolved , as both were colleagues at Calvert from its launch in 1982 , when Henderson served on Calvert’s Advisory Council with other experts , helping develop Calvert’s social screens . These screens helped steer portfolios...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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The reckoning has begun. Women have broken their silence and the world is finally listening. To have this moment be a transformative movement in American history, we examine the pain behind the anger, why it took so long for women to speak out, and the price women paid when they "Leaned In" and spoke up. Today we discuss how we move forward and dare to ask the questions others are afraid to ask.
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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For generations women have been seen as secondary or supplementary earners. Now women outnumber men graduating from higher education, and are taking their place in the global job market, and enjoying ever-greater financial independence. In this episode we meet the women challenging professional expectations, from the Amazon to Iran, and transforming society around them in the process.
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[1904]
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English
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By the beginning of the 20th century, many American women found employment outside of the home working in the garment industry. These jobs were often focused on repetitive movements and moving products along in an assembly line. Unsafe conditions at many work places led some women to join the labor movement. This movement became more mainstream after the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, in which 146 women died when the building they were working...
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The Supreme Court hears arguments in the largest ever class action case in the U.S. Betty Dukes vs. Wal-Mart is about gender discrimination and the nation's largest employer. Also featured in the video is the latest news from rebel-held Libya and pulling out from areas of Afghanistan.
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[1904]
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English
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The number of women in the workplace steadily increased from 1870 to 1900. Families found that a single income source was insufficient, and declining birth rates meant more women were able to work outside of the home. Textile factories and other manufacturing jobs employed the majority, but women also found work in offices and retail stores. Wage discrimination was common, with men earning as much as 75 percent more than women. By the turn of the...
13) Fly With Me
Series
American Experience volume 0
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a prescription for birth control. The job offered unheard-of opportunities for travel and independence. These women were on the frontlines of the battle to assert gender equality and transform the workplace.
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[2015]
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English
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“Forget China, India and the internet: economic growth is driven by women”, the Economist wrote in 2006, in an article titled A guide to womenomics. Over the past 10 years, the importance of gender equality to promote development, innovation and economic growth has been widely recognized. All over the world, political leaders, corporations and international organizations have realised that sexism is not just wrong but also expensive. Recent studies...
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What Would You Do? volume 0
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
Description
What would you do if you witnessed a job interview at a café where the male manager tells a younger female interviewee that she will not be hired because of her gender? Will any customers stand up for the female job-seeker? "Shark Tank" judge Barbara Corcoran guest stars.
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2022.
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English
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"The founder of Girls Who Code and ... author of Brave, Not Perfect confronts the 'big lie' of corporate feminism and presents a bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America's working women today ... Through powerful data and personal narrative, Saujani shows that the cost of inaction--for families, for our nation's economy, and for women themselves--is too great to ignore. She lays out four key steps for creating lasting change:...
18) Half the Road
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Half the Road is a documentary film that explores the world of women’s professional cycling, focusing on both the love of sport and the pressing issues of inequality that modern-day female riders face in a male dominated sport. With footage from some of the world’s best UCI races to interviews with Olympians, World Champions, rookies, coaches, managers, officials, doctors and family members, Half the Road offers a unique insight to the drive,...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Economist and award-winning author Sylvia Ann Hewlett blends vivid stories with powerful new data in assessing the impact of the #MeToo movement in corporate America and provides concrete action to help executives and companies create more inclusive and safe work environments for women, people of color, and LGBTQ employees. While the #MeToo movement has exposed the enormous harm done by sexual misconduct in the workplace, the movement's full promise...
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
Description
The first all-female college in Rwanda is making strides in empowering women from all backgrounds to become the nation’s next business leaders, part of an effort to leave behind an image of a violent country, wracked by genocide. At the Akilah Institute, students prepare for well-paying jobs and financial independence and learn gender equality. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.
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