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"Encyclopedia Womannica"
Episode: Warriors: Mary McLeod Bethune (8 Minutes)
Looking for a quick hit? In less than 10 minutes, you can learn the story of this incredible woman who was born in 1875 and made an indelible mark on civil and women’s rights, education and government. The seasons in this show are arranged around different themes: "warriors," "leaders," and "beautiful minds."
"Ordinary Equality"
Episode: The Ghost of Alice Paul (36 Minutes)
By 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment had passed both the House and the Senate, but it didn't receive the required ratifications from three quarters of the states within the time limit imposed by Congress. Earlier this year — nearly five decades later — Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the ERA. This podcast episode looks into the history of the ERA and Alice Paul — a woman celebrated for her role as the author of the amendment who was also, as host Kate Kelly explains, a complicated woman.
"Skimm’d from the Couch"
Episode: "Shiza Shahid, co-founder of the Malala Fund" (37 minutes long)
In this series, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, founders of TheSkimm, interview women who have had extraordinary careers and tease out lessons we can all learn from them. This episode features Shiza Shahid, the co-founder of the Malala Fund. Shahid explains how she makes her decisions to “show up in the moment” and turns her anger towards injustice into action against those wrongs.
"American Innovations"
Episode: "The Birth Control Pill. But Can It Be Done?" (40 minutes long)
Creating a birth control pill was a dream of Margaret Sanger’s. She had dedicated her life to legalizing birth control (knowingly breaking the law along the way). In her 70s, she still wanted to find a “magic pill” that could be used as a contraceptive. This episode, the first in a three-part series, chronicles how Sanger turned this idea into a reality.
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