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  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report (Series record)

    This is the series record “Hot Flashes,” women’s news from the Majority Report, broadcast on WBAI. Pacifica Radio Archives has five episodes, broadcast in 1977 and 1978.

  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report: June 17, 1977

    Women’s news and current events from Majority Report for June 17, 1977, hosted by Nancy Boreman. Topics include: Traditional American Families / Parker: “male head of family needs the opportunity to work.”; New York Marriage Contract revealed; The SCUM Manifesto-Valerie Solanas; Upcoming NOW-NY march, Lesbian pride week events; other upcoming women’s events; women’s weight training;…

  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report: September 7, 1977

    Women’s news and current events from the Majority Report for September 7, 1977. Hosted and produced by Viv Sutherland for WBAI’s Women’s Department. Topics include: Steven Goldberg, benefits of contraceptive gels, new information from the census report, abortion rights in Connecticut, New York for Employment Action Council upcoming rally for jobs, pesticides causing infertility in…

  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report: October 25, 1977

    Women’s news and current events from Majority Report for October 25, 1977. Hosted by Diane Torr for WBAI’s Women’s Department. Topics include an analysis of the congressional voting records on abortion, personality differences between men and women at work, AFL-CIO president calls himself “a closet feminist,” Karen Silkwood case, men in computer language are represented…

  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report: January 17, 1978

    Women’s news and current events from Majority Report for January 17, 1978. Produced by Nancy Boreman for WBAI’s Women’s Department. Topics include ERA ratification in Virginia and other unratified states, New York City funding for abortion, women apple pickers in New York State, arguments against the Hyde Amendment, women’s rights in Texas, Canadian gay rights,…

  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report: June 6, 1978

    Women’s news and current events from Majority Report for January 17, 1978. Produced by Nancy Boreman for WBAI’s Women’s Department. Topics include adultery laws in New York, bill to ticket prostitutes, Wisconsin judge seeks damages from Associated Press for publication of his comments about rape, Sudanese women’s views on female circumcision, Marlene Deitrich making a…

  • Women’s legal clinic: December 2, 1979-Child custody

    Women’s Legal Clinic aircheck. Judy Levin and Betty Levinson discuss child custody and take listener phone calls.

  • Kathryn Kish Sklar speaks on married women workers

    Kathryn Kish Sklar speaks on the radical impact married women workers, and their ability to financially support themselves and their families, is making on family life and working life. Yet there remains a lack of change in their political status. This is possibly a lecture she gave at UCLA, but date and location of speech…

  • Daguerreotapes : portraits of women and work / produced by Harriet Baskas.

    Portraits of seven women which explore their changing role in the workforce, 1900-1950, when their participation rose from 20% to 35%. The documentary blends oral history, interviews, music and stories, which trace the women’s cultural, political, social and economic contributions to our nation.|DAGUERREOTAPES : PORTRAITS OF WOMEN AND WORK / produced by Harriet Baskas. –…

  • Women in the economy / presented by Lauri Helmbold.

    Ramparts Report, the weekly program of news and current happenings, brought to you by the staff of Ramparts Magazine. Women in the Economy presented by Lauri Helmbold of the New College of San Jose State University. She originally presented this material in San Francisco during a weekend conference at Liberation School, March 23, 1974. The…