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Part 11 of KPFA's presentation of the University of California's Medical Center Conference "The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche" held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 3 of "Suffocation in Suburbia." In this recording Jean Paul Mather, D. Sc.(1914-2007), University President and General Manager, Purdue Research Foundation (Lafayette, Indiana) presents "The Emergence of Womanpower," a talk on the underdeveloped and unrecognized productive abilities among women. Part of Mather's thesis has to do with egotistical male views of and myths about women, and how these views limit women's potential and productivity. Mather encourages society to promote women in the areas of mathematics, engineering, and science.

What kind of women join the Air Force, how are they discriminated against by the military, and is the role of women changing in the service? This program explores these questions with interviews with Air Force recruiters, WAF's and other people who are employed by the United States Air Force. Interviews conducted by Jan Legnitto and Pat Roberto. Music by the United States Air Force Singing Sergeants. Narration by Arthur Godfrey. Produced by Jan Legnitto for the KPFA Public Affairs Department. Technical production by Stan Johnston. Contains sensitive language.

Reading of short story "Changes" by author Denise Oliver / Produced by WPFW, Broadcast on KPFA. This program features a reading of the short story "Changes" by author Denise Oliver, former program director for WPFW in Washington, DC. The story is about a young black woman who lived in a black neighborhood in Queens as a teenager and would hang out and later work in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of East Harlem (El Barrio) New York. She finds herself in her early twenties teaching young kids and struggling with the fact that people don't recognize her as black. Her broken Spanish, light skin and straight hair hide her heritage. She falls in love with a young man who is recovering from drug addiction.

This program was part of a mini-marathon held at KPFA to raise funds for WPFW, which was not yet on the air. May 3rd, 1976. WZ0019 is a duplicate of this program.

Catharine R. Stimpson speaks on 'Women's liberation and Black Civil Rights." Stimpson, a Literature professor from Barnard College, speaks about the relationship between the Women's movement and the Black Civil Rights movement and possible tensions. Contains a very passionate question and answer period with well-known feminist theorists (although their identities are not obvious). Recorded in WBAI's studio C. The program is introduced by producer Nanette Rainone who also introduces this new series "The Women's School." See more information about the series here: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bc0981. This program was on 2 reels, but there is 1 digital file containing both parts.