Sex discrimination in employment

  • Labor fights for the ERA

    This episode of “Them and Us” is asking “Should labor unions support ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)?”. Hosts are Carmen Delle Donne and Karen Boyd. Guests are Lizzie Corban, Sarah Nelson, and Susan Holleran. Includes live call-ins. Broadcast 1-19-78 Thursday, 7:00pm-8:00pm.

  • Women’s legal clinic: February 3, 1980

    Everywomanspace: Women’s legal clinic. Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace. February 3, 1980 with attorney Judy Levin, law student Paula Smith, and WBAI’s Judy Pasternak, discussing forced sterilization of women who work in hazardous workplaces including the Dupont plant. Needs editing before broadcast.

  • Louise Howe and Pink Collar Workers

    Judy Sackoff interviews Louise Kapp Howe, author of “Pink Collar Workers,” a book about office workers, waitresses, homemakers–jobs that are done almost exclusively by women.

  • Hot type / by Marjorie Lipsyte interviewed by Phyllis Kriegel

    “Hot Type” is a novel about a woman working on a newspaper in the 1960’s, struggling to get ahead but finding it very difficult. Includes discussion of early women in newspaper 1930’s, movement in 1940’s (because of war) women found jobs, but then pushed back in the 1950’s. By the 1960’s there were less women…

  • Jane Trahey interviewed by Rebecca Tron Klinger

    Jane Trahey (1923-2000), businesswoman, humorist, author, advertising pioneer, and one of the first women to own and manage an advertising agency, Trahey Advertising, discusses her new book, “Jane Trahey on Women and Power: Who’s Got It. How to Get It.’ with Rebecca Tron Klinger.

  • Sex discrimination: women of the C.U.N.Y. system

    Mimi Rosenberg speaks with three women: Lilia Melani, Sandy Cooper, and Nancy Dean. They discuss sex discrimination in the City University of New York system.

  • Working women / produced by Bonnie Bellow and Brett Harvey

    A program about women’s work in American. This program contains portions of two speak-outs held recently in New York City, one of women office workers (see BC1717) and one on women’s work (possibly BC1722). The program was produced by Bonnie Bellow and Brett Harvey, with special assistance from Judy Sherman, Nanette Rainote, and Susan Sheftel,…

  • Women’s legal clinic: April 9, 1979-Sex discrimination in employment

    Women’s legal clinic. Broadcast live. Topic: Sex discrimination in employment. Hosted by Betty Levinson, Eve Cary and Judith Levin and another unnamed host discuss the Lochner vs. New York Supreme Court case (1905), which involved a New York law that limited the number of hours that a baker could work each day to ten, and…

  • Education for the weaker sex (Episode 3 of 7)

    Marjorie Uren, a graduate student in English at the University of California (Berkeley) and part time instructor of English at Stanford speaks on “Education for the weaker sex” at a teach-in on the oppression of women at San Francisco State College on December 10, 1969. Uren talks about the passive discrimination in textbooks and children’s…

  • The economics of oppression (Episode 5 of 7)

    Joan Jordan, a former factory worker who was replaced by automation and is now a student at San Francisco State College, speaks on “The economics of oppression” at a teach-in on the oppression of women at San Francisco State College on December 10, 1969. In this discussion, Jordan reveals statistics about how large the female…