International Women’s Day

26 episodes

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  • 1

    Secrets of success with Jane Garvey

    Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

    51:27 | Feb 19th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    History has traditionally taken a negative view of women in power. This series of talks from our archive explores stories of powerful women and how their legacies have been shaped by their gender.  In...Show More

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    In preparation for International Women’s Day, I’m starting a playlist. Elizabeth I was the OG. “She may not have been a feminist as we would recognize the term today, but she was certainly very, very ...Show More

  • 2

    Finding Cleopatra

    Sidedoor

    26:51 | Dec 11th, 2019

    6 recommendations

    Edmonia Lewis was the first American woman of color to achieve international fame as a sculptor. Her 3,000-pound masterwork, “The Death of Cleopatra,” commemorated another powerful woman who broke wit...Show More

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    @rmmiller364 you may find this of interest. I am slowly working my way through your list on art history. This is an interesting story about an African American sculptress in the mid-1900s who found ...Show More

  • 3

    Hosts: Dr. Kyla McMullen and Dr. Jeremy Waisome NCWIT Contributor: Dr. JeffriAnne Wilder Black women were pioneers in various fields of computing, but it’s often hard to find their stories, even today...Show More

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    I am loving this podcast hosted by three successful black women in tech. All have PhDs. Their goal is to inspire young black women to pursue careers in tech by sharing their experiences and survival...Show More

  • 4

    363- Invisible Women

    99% Invisible

    27:07 | Jul 23rd, 2019

    21 recommendations

    Men are often the default subjects of design, which can have a huge impact on big and critical aspects of everyday life. Caroline Criado Perez is the author of Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World De...Show More

  • 5

    Ruth Handler - “Disruption”

    Great Women of Business

    1:10:24 | Jun 19th, 2018

    1 recommendation

    Originally a plastics company, Mattel changed their focus to toys when co-founder Ruth Handler sensed a growing need for toys after the post-war baby-boom. Years later, she would disrupt the toy marke...Show More

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    Gave me a whole new appreciation of Barbie dolls. Barbie was the brain child of a tough, smart woman. She noted that girls were rejecting the baby-like dolls of that time for adult looking 2 dimensi...Show More

  • 6

    Empathy is a powerful tool and, when mixed with politics, it can be used to help the greater good. But, it also has a dark side. In this episode, Alan Alda speaks with former Secretary of State Madele...Show More

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    Delightful to hear Albright reminisce about how she forged a respectful working relationship with Jesse Helms. People, it is possible to work with and learn from those with whom you profoundly disagr...Show More

  • 7

    You won't believe your ears. A hidden herstory in the history of science.

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    Turns out that John Tyndall, the physicist who discovered that CO2 was a greenhouse gas, didn’t. Eunice Foote published years before him, but as a female didn’t get the credit.

  • 8

    India on Ice

    Kalki Presents: My Indian Life

    23:07 | Oct 6th, 2018

    1 recommendation

    In a mostly tropical country, an ice hockey player has Olympic dreams. She converts frozen lakes into rinks, endures broken bones and apathy in a nation obsessed with cricket. How far would she go to...Show More

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    There is a women’s ice hockey team in India! I was gobsmacked. This is the story of what they had to go through to get a team off the ground. FYI, in a separate news item, this team just played in Al...Show More

  • 9

    Even as a kid, Jeni Britton Bauer knew she was going to start a business one day. But she had no idea that her love for perfume would inspire her to start experimenting with ice cream. After years of ...Show More

  • 10

    Shout Out to Susan Olivia Poole

    The Secret Life of Canada (Archive)

    01:53 | Aug 30th, 2018

    1 recommendation

    Bonus! Meet Susan Olivia Poole, the first Indigenous woman to receive a patent with an invention that has been sold all over the world.

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    First native woman to get a patent! Listen and find out what it’s for. You know what it is. Go on. It’s only 1:52 long.

  • 11

    Germaine de Stael

    In Our Time

    49:57 | Nov 16th, 2017

    1 recommendation

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) who Byron praised as Europe's greatest living writer, and was at the heart of intellectual and literary life in the...Show More

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    Mme de Stael was one of the original protofeminists. A leader in the Paris salon culture that stimulated public thought at a time when educated women were not valued. Even Napoleon was afraid of her...Show More

  • 12

    278- The Athletic Brassiere

    99% Invisible

    23:35 | Oct 3rd, 2017

    1 recommendation

    Among the most important advances in sports technology, few can compete with the invention of the sports bra. Following the passage of Title IX in 1972, women’s interest in athletics surged. But their...Show More

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    A nipple goes from 0 - 60 faster than a sports car. The sports bra was a key enabler in the entry of women into competitive sports. Show examines why this niche was overlooked and nobody wanted to s...Show More

  • 13

    Lucy Worsley's Favourite Queen

    Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

    1:04:21 | Nov 16th, 2017

    1 recommendation

    Join Historic Royal Palaces' Joint Chief Curator, Lucy Worsley, for an evening talk on the tragic and neglected Queen Caroline, wife of King George II. Discover the secrets of Georgian royal life and ...Show More

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    Queen Charlotte - sparkling bon vibrant, came from a German tradition where the queen consort was responsible for setting the social and cultural tone of court. There is interesting UK history that d...Show More

  • 14

    Slave Leia 2016

    Imaginary Worlds

    19:59 | Dec 29th, 2016

    1 recommendation

    In memory of Carrie Fisher, I'm replaying my episode Slave Leia from last year's Star Wars series. For a while, the gold metal bikini that Princess Leia wore in Return of the Jedi had become the domin...Show More

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    Fight for your costume, ladies! Classic Leia blasting her way out of prison in the white gown with the donut bun hairdo will always be my Leia.

  • 15

    Brownie Wise - “The Art Of Selling”

    Great Women of Business

    1:05:46 | Jul 9th, 2018

    Brownie Wise didn't just sell Tupperware, she revolutionized sales strategies and created lasting opportunities for working mothers. However, her volatile relationship with Earl Tupper cost her job, h...Show More

  • 16

    Naomi Klein doesn’t like the word “hope”

    More with Anna Maria Tremonti

    1:03:00 | Mar 2nd, 2020

    2 recommendations

    These are emotional times for Naomi Klein. As an activist, she has fought a lot of big battles. But now she’s waging what may be the fight of her life — against climate change — and many days, the odd...Show More

  • 17

    Why We Drive

    Over the Road

    41:02 | Mar 5th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    A tale of two truckers in Grand Island, Nebraska: former real-estate agent Kenyette Godhigh-Bell, and third-generation owner-operator Jared Sidlo. One is testing the waters of a new career, while the ...Show More

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    Only 8% of US truck drivers are women . . . But the numbers are big. 8% = 200,000 female truck drivers. Wow. Really enjoying this podcast about the lives of truck drivers. It has a very Studs Terkel ...Show More

  • 18

    34. A Tour de France – Lyon

    The Land of Desire: French History and Culture

    25:37 | Oct 26th, 2017

    1 recommendation

    This week, we continue our petit Tour de France to Lyon, where we leave the cityfolk behind and try our best to meet the isolated peasants of the countryside, trying to make a franc out of 15 centimes...Show More

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    Miniseries within this podcast that explores key spots in France along the route of the Tour de France. Some of the description of how the peasants lived in the late 19th century (living with the anim...Show More

  • 19

    At our CFO Forum in London, senior partners Celia Huber and Vivian Hunt led a discussion on corporate diversity, sharing insights from McKinsey’s ongoing research and answering questions from attendee...Show More

  • 20

    When Lena Richard cooked her first chicken on television, she beat Julia Child to the screen by over a decade. At a time when most African American women cooks worked behind swinging kitchen doors, Ri...Show More

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    Brilliant black chef wrote pioneering cookbook on New Orleans Creole cuisine in 1939 and likely the first TV cooking show to headline an African American woman in 1949. She became a cooking celebrity...Show More

  • 21

    100 Women: Women in power

    The Documentary Podcast

    49:34 | Nov 29th, 2020

    5 recommendations

    Mary Ann Sieghart asks what it takes to be a powerful woman and what holds so many back. Sexism, appearance and encouraging fathers are all up for discussion as Mary Ann talks to former Prime Minister...Show More

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    Inspirational stories from some of the worlds most accomplished women. Mary Robinson’s story about meeting Pope John Paul II while President of Ireland is jaw dropping. Must listen.

  • 22

    The Leaky Pipeline

    Twenty Thousand Hertz

    29:46 | May 26th, 2021

    1 recommendation

    In the late 80s, a small French company found a way to pair analog film with pristine digital audio. But getting their system into theaters would involve a long legal battle, hiding out in a Vegas bat...Show More

    epekilis recommended:

    Interesting story documenting challenges of women in the technical side of the entertainment industry.

  • 23

    Jen Welter was the first woman to coach in the NFL, hired five years ago as a training camp assistant with the Arizona Cardinals. But momentous as her hiring was, it’s the women who’ve come after her ...Show More

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    This woman is a powerhouse.

  • 24

    Scientist-In-Residence Regina Barber joins host Emily Kwong to talk about a 1950's discovery that changed the course of physics, and the woman who made it: Chien-Shiung Wu.

  • 25

    The Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office

    The Atlas Obscura Podcast

    13:45 | Feb 28th, 2022

    1 recommendation

    This office, established by the founder of the American Red Cross, changed the lives of thousands of Civil War soldiers and their families. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/...Show More

    epekilis recommended:

    Before she founded the US Red Cross (!), Clara Barton single-handedly started the missing soldiers service for families seeking lost ones in the Civil War. And she started doing THAT because she was ...Show More

  • 26

    Face Value

    Sidedoor

    31:54 | Mar 13th, 2024

    1 recommendation

    Money is power. But who's on our money - or isn’t - can be just as powerful. While Lady Liberty has graced American coins and dollars for most of our history, it wasn’t until the 1970s that a real wom...Show More

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    Representation matters. Ancient Roman emperors clearly understood that having their face on those coins was an indicator of power. So, how to select which inspirational women should figure on commemo...Show More

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