Latest Women in history Podcast Episodes
Workers: Františka Plamínková
Womanica - May 28, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsFrantiška Plamínková (1875-1942) was a Czech teacher, organizer, and politician who dedicated her life to advancing women’s rights. She played a key role in winning women’s suffrage and served as a senator. She then opposed the Nazis, and ultimately was executed for her role in the underground r...
Workers: Hiratsuka Raichō
Womanica - May 27, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsHiratsuka Raichō (1886-1971) was a Japanese feminist and social reformer, who founded a literary magazine by and for women. After becoming a mother, she became an advocate for working women in Japan, fighting for suffrage and better working conditions. For Further Reading: “In the Beginning...
Workers: Rebecca Lukens
Womanica - May 24, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsRebecca Lukens (1794-1854) is known as the first female CEO in the United States. She ran Brandywine Iron Works and Nail Factory, successfully guiding it through a difficult economic recession and a rapidly industrializing workplace. For Further Reading: Rebecca Lukens: A woman of iron Re...
Workers: Lucy Parsons
Womanica - May 23, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsLucy Parsons (c.1851-1942) was an anti-capitalist labor organizer.. She founded the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) and The International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), and advocated for the 8-hour workday. For Further Reading: WBEZ Reporter Arionne Nettles Book Revie...
Workers: Clara Zetkin
Womanica - May 22, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsClara Zetkin (1857-1933) was a prominent German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights. She played a pivotal role in the early socialist and communist movements, particularly in championing women's suffrage and equality. Zetkin also initiated International Women's Day, which...
Workers: Florence Knoll Bassett
Womanica - May 21, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsFlorence Knoll Bassett (1917-2019) ushered in a new modern and sleek aesthetic for the American office during the postwar era. The pioneering architect and interior designer believed the design process should incorporate every element — from furniture textiles to artwork to doorknobs. Her work a...
Workers: Mary Macarthur
Womanica - May 20, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsMary Macarthur (1880-1921) was a trade unionist who fought for women workers. She founded the National Federation of Women’s Workers, helped pass the 1909 Trade Boards Act, which guaranteed a minimum wage for women workers, and led multiple strikes against employers who refused to pay their work...
Workers: Pat Schroeder
Womanica - May 17, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsPat Schroeder (1940-2023) was a trailblazing force in American politics, known for her advocacy for women's rights and social justice. As the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado, she championed progressive causes from gender equality to reproductive rights to education throughout her 2...
Workers: Irene Fernandez
Womanica - May 16, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsIrene Fernandez (1946-2014) was a Malaysian human rights activist. She co-founded Tenaganita, a non-governmental organization that promotes the rights of migrant workers. When she raised the alarm about migrant workers’ welfare in government detentions, she became the subject of one of the longe...
Workers: Emma Tenayuca
Womanica - May 15, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsEmma Tenayuca (1916-1999) was a Mexican-American labor organizer and civil rights activist who led a wave of strikes by women workers in Texas during the Great Depression. She is known as la pasionaria de Texas, or the Passionate One. For Further Reading: On One of the Great Unsung Heroes o...
Workers: Maria Moreno
Womanica - May 14, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsMaria Moreno (1920-1989) was a farmworker and labor union activist during the Farmworkers' Movement of the 1960s. She is the first woman to be hired as a union organizer. During her time with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, Maria led strikes and fought for workers’ rights. Furt...
Workers: Sue Cowan Williams
Womanica - May 13, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsSue Cowan Williams (1910-1994) was a teacher in Little Rock, Arkansas, who filed and won a lawsuit to end pay discrimination against Black teachers in the segregated South. Hher case helped shape the organization’s legal strategy for civil rights in schools across the country. Special thanks t...
Workers: Florence Reece
Womanica - May 10, 2024 07:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsFlorence Reece (1900-1986) was a writer, musician, and poet who wrote about unions, coal miners’ rights, and her own lived experiences. Florence was a coal miner’s wife and experienced the bloody Harlan County War, which she used as inspiration for her material. She is best known for her song “W...
Workers: Ela Bhatt
Womanica - May 09, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsEla Bhatt (1933-2022) was an activist and organizer who founded the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India (SEWA), which serves primarily low-income women across India. She went on to become an influential figure, known internationally for her work in cooperatives, labor organizing, and micr...
Workers: Mina Miller Edison
Womanica - May 08, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsMina Miller Edison (1865-1947) was the second wife of American inventor and businessman Thomas Edison. She was an advocate for acknowledging the domestic labor required of women. She called herself a “home executive” and emphasized the importance of women’s work as actual work, not an idealized ...
Workers: Florence St. John
Womanica - May 07, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsFlorence St. John (c.1896-1970) was a General Motors factory worker who led her co-workers in a lawsuit against the company demanding equal pay for women. The win was the first significant damages payout in a discrimination case in the history of America law. For Further Reading: Florence St....
Workers: Sue Ko Lee
Womanica - May 06, 2024 10:45 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsSue Ko Lee (1910-1996) was a labor organizer who participated in one of the longest strikes in the history of San Francisco’s Chinatown. She and other garment workers joined forces with a white-led union to win better pay and shorter hours — and a huge victory for the Chinese American workforce....
Workers: Margo St. James
Womanica - May 03, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsMargo St. James (1937-2021) was a prominent advocate for the rights of sex workers. In 1962, she was wrongfully arrested on prostitution charges – an experience that inspired the rest of her life of activism. For Further Reading: Margo St. James, Advocate for Sex Workers, Dies at 83 Econ...
Workers: Amelia Bloomer
Womanica - May 02, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsAmelia Bloomer (1818-1894) was an early suffragist, editor, and social advocate. After writing about a less-restrictive style of dressing for women, she became inextricably linked with it. She’s the reason we think of pantaloons as “bloomers.” And ever since, the women’s rights movement has used...
Workers: Elizabeth Duncan Koontz
Womanica - May 01, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsElizabeth Duncan Koontz (1919-1989) was an educator and civil rights leader, known for her pioneering efforts in advancing racial equality and women's rights. She was the first Black president of the National Education Association and later became the first Black woman to serve as the director o...
Disappearing Acts: Whitney Duan
Womanica - April 30, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsWhitney Duan, or Duan Weihong, (1966-unknown) is a Chinese real estate billionaire who made her fortune by mixing business with politics. In 2017, she suddenly went missing and has only resurfaced a handful of times since. For Further Reading: Why the Ex-Husband of a Missing Chinese Billion...
Disappearing Acts: Suzanne Césaire
Womanica - April 29, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsSuzanne Roussi Césaire (1915-1966) was a Martinican writer whose essays criticized colonialism, civilization, and Caribbean identity. She helped found, write, edit, and publish Tropiques, a literary journal that gave voice to the Caribbean experience under colonialism. Although she was a signifi...
Disappearing Acts: Rose Valland
Womanica - April 26, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsRose Valland (1898-1980) was an art historian and curator based in Paris during the Nazi occupation. She hid in plain sight as a secretary, documenting the shipments of artistic masterpieces out of France, and is responsible for the discovery and protection of over 60,000 pieces of looted artwor...
Disappearing Acts: Takasue’s Daughter
Womanica - April 25, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsSugawara no Takasue no musume (1008 - c. 1059), or Takasue’s daughter, was the author of “Sarashina Nikki,” or “Sarashina Diary,” a well-known book providing an in-depth look at life during Japan’s Heian period. While the book remains prolific and relevant even today, we don’t know the author's ...
Disappearing Acts: Anastasia Romanov
Womanica - April 24, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsAnastasia Romanov (1901-1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. Her death was hotly debated for years, as she was believed to have survived her family’s execution. For Further Reading: A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the court of Anna Anderson The Romanov...
France’s Secularism (Laïcité) As “An Instrument For It's Government To Be Muslimophobic” ft. Nour Bouferrache
Journal Hijabi - April 23, 2024 12:00 - 36 minutes[video] EP. 40 Sereen is joined by Nour Bouferrache, a 21 year-old algerian who immigrated to France with her family in 2010. Nour is an international law student in Paris and currently doing an exchange at Oxford Brooke’s (London). In this episode Nour shares her experiences while growing up in...
Disappearing Acts: Marguerite de la Rocque
Womanica - April 23, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsMarguerite de la Rocque (c. 1542) was meant to disappear. That’s what her older relative, Sieur de Roberval, intended to happen when he marooned Marguerite on an uninhabited Canadian island. But against all odds, she survived instead. For Further Reading: The Elusive Isle of Demons | Worlds ...
Disappearing Acts: Barbara Newhall Follett
Womanica - April 22, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsBarbara Newhall Follet (1914-unknown) was an American child prodigy novelist. She published two books before she was a teenager and wrote poetry as well. When she was in her twenties, she left her house after fighting with her husband and was never seen again. For Further Reading: Farksolia:...
Disappearing Acts: Clara Bow
Womanica - April 19, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsClara Bow (1905-1965) was an American film star of the 1920s. Her flapper persona helped bring about the “it” girl and popularize the fads of the era. Her sudden retirement at the age of 28 essentially erased her from later films as the studio system grew, but she left an undeniable imprint on f...
Disappearing Acts: Irmgard Keun
Womanica - April 18, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 707 ratingsIrmgard Keun (1905-1982) was a best-selling novelist in Germany in the early 1930s. After she ran afoul of Nazi censorship, she became an exiled, “anti-German” expatriate hiding from the Nazi regime. That’s when she was reported dead by suicide. But was that really the full story? For Further...
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