American Women — Work and unions

  • Income taxes with Reva Calesky, feminist financial consultant / interviewed by Viv Sutherland

    Viv Sutherland interviews feminist financial consultant Reva Calesky (1939-2012), owner of Feminist Financial Services in New York City. The discussion centers around saving on income taxes and financial planning for single and married women.

  • The Woman and the Carpenter (Part 2 only)

    Linda Schiffman interviews four tradeswomen, all employed in non-traditional work and enrollees in the Women in Apprenticeship Program, about sexism on the job and the kinds of problems they encountered getting used to this different kind of work. The women interviewed are Priscilla Danzig, a carpenter’s apprentice and member of Carpenters Local 305, Marin County;…

  • A tribute to Esther Rand

    In June of 1981, tenant organizer Esther Rand of the East Side Tenant Council died at the age of 74 while visiting the land of her birth, the Soviet Union. In this program Esther Rand tells her life story with help from friends and co-workers Jane Benedict, chairperson of the Metropolitan (Met) Council; Bess Stevenson,…

  • Majority report, November 1981: Farming women

    A report on women farmers in California. With the increase of mechanization and the decreasing availability of farmland and farming jobs, rural women have begun to find employment in nearby towns instead of on farms, but many women still tend the land and manage agricultural operations on small farms. Includes interviews with Jeannie Fletcher, a…

  • Majority report, November 18, 1982: Schlafly v. English, Olivia’s 10th Birthday, Update on Silkwood, Planetary conjunction

    Marci Lockwood and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, November 18, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Highlights from anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly and Mother Jones editor Deirdre English’s debate on the role of women in San Francisco on November 17, 1982 — 3. Julia Randall reports on the preparations for Olivia Records’ 10th…

  • Marge Albert: Union organizer / Bonnie Bellow

    Marge Albert worked as an office worker for twenty-five years. After organizing her own office, she left her job to become a full time organizer for the Distributive Workers of America, helping office workers to organize unions in their own offices.  She talks with Bonnie Bellow about her experiences organizing women workers and about the…

  • 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.

  • International Women’s Day (1980) speakers

    Tape of the celebration of International Women’s Day 1980, sponsored by NOW-NY and the New York Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women and endorsed by over 40 other feminist, labor and civil rights activist groups. Recorded March 8, 1980. Speakers include Bella Abzug, Ruby Dee, Barbara Omolade, Marge Albert, Rhonda Copelon. Includes a…

  • Roz Baxandall on the Coalition of Labor Union Women

    Bonnie Bellow and Nanette Rainone talk with historian, Roz Baxandall, who attended the founding conference of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) in Chicago on March 23 and 24, 1974. At the time of the interview, Baxendahl was writing a book on the history of women and work. They discuss this historic conference, which…