Women’s rights

  • 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…

  • ERA countdown

    Actuality from a rally held on June 30, 1981 marking the 1-year countdown for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The rally was held at the New York Public Library and speakers included Bella Abzug, actress Marlo Thomas, New York City Council member Miriam Friedlander (1914-2009), President of the New York City Council Carol Bellamy…

  • Women’s legal clinic: August 6, 1979- ERA

    Women’s legal clinic. Eve Cary and Judy Levin talk about ERA and take listener phone calls. Very good and up to date as of air date. Some of air check lost at beginning. Produced by Eileen Zalisk.

  • Women’s legal clinic: July 7, 1980

    Judy Levin and Betty Levinson review important legal cases of the 1970s. Begins with discussion of a recent Supreme Court case concerning abortion, McRae v. Harris, which held that states participating in Medicaid were not required to provide funding for abortions, then reviews precedents of 1970s. Features a listener call-in portion. Edited and approved for…

  • Women’s legal clinic: May 7, 1979-Legal rights related to pregnancy

    The topic of this week’s Women’s Legal Clinic is pregnancy, disability, and women’s legal rights with respect to pregnancy. Hosts are Eve Cary and Judy Levin. Cary is an attorney with Legal Aid Society of New York and the author of the NYCLU Guide to Women’s Rights in New York State. Levin is an attorney…

  • The effects of racism on the economic rights of women (Part 2 of 2)

    This is the second tape of a symposium sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In this symposium, women from diverse ethnic backgrounds discuss racism: why it exists, who is racist, who benefits, its effects both nationally and globally, and what Affirmative Action may mean to most women. Spring 1981. Produced by…

  • Abortion : is it murder or a woman’s right? (Part 2 of 2)

    Part two of the panel discussion with Walter Trinkaus, Lana Clarke Phelan, and Rev. J. Hugh Anwyl. They discuss the issues surrounding abortion, and the problems of pregnancy. Initially heard on Gather ‘Round the Stake on Sunday, July 12, 1970. Produced and moderated by Tom Ritt.

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer – August 26, 1980: Women’s Equality Day 1980

    Edited selections from Women’s Equality Day rally in Bryant part 26 Aug 1980. Also called “Women 80.” 1980 marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Suffrage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Speeches focus on the the state of women in 1980. Part one opens with chanting, then a speech by Rosemary Gaffney. The…

  • San Francisco women’s liberation media project (Episode 1)

    Collage of music and sound, prepared by the Women’s Liberation Media Project, designed to present some news about, and viewpoints of, the women’s liberation movement. The program was previously broadcast over KSAN-FM. Note: obscenity-contains one “shi%” which is marked on tape.