Gender
Many women ran for office, will they win in record numbers?
Like most midterm elections, the 2018 campaign is also a referendum on the incumbent president.
6 years ago
On #MeToo, Americans more divided by party than gender
A new NPR-Ipsos polls show the nation deeply divided on sexual assault and harassment.
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Transgender rights: #WontBeErased
Air Date: November 1, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 48:56Celebrating women in Klezmer music
The Philadelphia Folklore Project is celebrating that lineage with a performance on Sunday, Oct 28, at the Annenberg Center called Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer.
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Listen 2:22Ethiopia gets its first female president
"It should have happened a long time ago, but the next best time is now."
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Trans people say they #WontBeErased, as Trump administration mulls defining ‘sex’
A memo that has reportedly been circulating at the Department of Health and Human Services aims to narrow the federal government's definition of "sex" under Title IX
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Nearly forgotten French impressionist regains her moment in Philadelphia exhibit
Berthe Morisot - a founding artist of French impressionism who was nearly forgotten - is coming back at the Barnes Foundation.
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“The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry”
Air Date: October 16, 2018 10:20 am
Listen 35:30Post-Kavanaugh, men reflect on accountability
Some of the men seemed to be struggling with this stuff. They’d say one thing, then contradict themselves a minute later.
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Listen 4:10Serena Williams headlines Pennsylvania Conference for Women in Philly
Tennis great calls attention to the risk of pregnancy-related deaths for black women.
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Delaware teachers union investigating president after sexist, racist blog posts surface
About 10 years before Mike Matthews was president of the Delaware teachers union, he was an irreverent blogger.
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Listen 5:07Coming to the right answer by themselves: Talking with boys about sexual assault
In the basement of a suburban Philadelphia home, six high school freshman boys talk about sexual assault in the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.
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Why are black women less likely to stick with a breast cancer follow-up treatment?
Breast cancer is less common in black women, yet they're about 40 percent more likely to die from it than are white women.
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After one year of headlines, #MeToo is everywhere
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the reporting, in The New York Times and The New Yorker, that led to the fall of movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
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