American Women — Education

  • Majority report, May 6, 1982: Judy Chicago, San Francisco Women’s Building, Merle Woo

    Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, May 6, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Artist Judy Chicago talks about The Birth Project, her follow-up to The Dinner Party, with KPFA’s Toni Gray; also includes interviews with some of the participants in the project — 3. A celebration of the third anniversary…

  • 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.

  • Everywomanspace: July 5, 1982-Angela Gilliam hosts

    Aircheck of 7/5/82 Everywomanspace program with Angela Gilliam. The guest is Professor Everard Barrett of State University of New York at Old Westbury and the Barrett Learning Dynamics Corporation, who discusses the lack of Black children in math classes, and his method for teaching mathematics which is more effective. Features listener phone calls. This appears…

  • 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…

  • Women in the universities (Episode 4 of 7)

    Maryjean Suelzle, a graduate student in sociology at the University of California (Berkeley) and the vice president of the Women’s Sociology Caucus there, speaks on “Women in the universities” at a teach-in on the oppression of women at San Francisco State College on December 10, 1969. In this talk, Suelzle analyzes statistics and university attitudes…

  • Title IX / produced by Carolyn Berger.

    Carolyn Berger reports on the content and meaning of federal legislation prohibiting discrimination against people because of sex in federally funded education programs. The first reel of the program is a documentary about Title IX; interviewed for the documentary are Walter Norwood, Fair Employment Coordinator for LA City Schools; Jean Tavlin, first-grade teacher in Los…

  • Urban education: October 6, 1973

    Taped one week after graduation, a group of sixth graders from P.S. 42 in the Lower East Side of New York City discuss their experiences in school, including sexism, racism, tracking and teachers. Later kindergartners say what they think about first grade. Produced by Norma Brooks, Margo Jones, and Zina Steinberg.

  • Texas texts / produced by Patricia Meredith

    Documentary examining hearings in Austin at the State Board of Education concerning sexism in children’s textbooks. Program is comprised of interviews, music, and tapes on the hearings. The purposes of the hearing were to draw attention to the fact that sexism is in textbooks, and that the state of Texas is the largest buyer of…

  • To be a full human being / Margaret Mead.

    Margaret Mead delivers the opening keynote address at the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in November 1972. The theme of the conference is “To Be a Full Human Being,” which derives from a quote from Mead. In the speech she addresses the enormous number of breaks…

  • Jehovah’s child : the case of Deena Metzger

    Excerpts from a press conference that was held on Wednesday, September 17, 1969 concerning the case Deena Metzger and Leslie Hoag, both teachers at Los Angeles Valley College. Both women were suspended from their teaching jobs for assigning Metzger’s poem “Jehovah’s Child,” which was deemed obscene by the junior college’s Board of Trustees, to their…