NPR’s Founding Mothers: Shattering Glass Ceilings in the 1970s

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Even after the Civil Rights Act in 1964 banned employment discrimination, women in the workplace still found it nearly impossible to get the kind of jobs they really wanted and were qualified for. When National Public Radio launched 50 years ago, four women found their way into a world previously closed to them — broadcast journalism. They became icons — using their voices to fight sexism in the workplace and cover decades of news. We examine the amazing careers of “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie” with Lisa Napoli, author of “The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.1	I'm Brian Watt.
1:18.3	National Public Radio is marking 50 years on the air, and a new book says four women, whose voices many of us know well, were key in making NPR what it is today.
1:29.3	Susan, Linda, Nina, and Koki tells the stories of these women who started working when broadcast news was a backwater of male chauvinism
1:37.3	and helped NPR do better at giving women a voice.
1:41.3	Author Lisa Napoli joins us.
1:43.3	Then, City College of San Francisco a report
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1:50.8	steep cuts are needed to make things right so what happens now that's all
1:54.9	coming up after this news welcome to forum I'm Brian Watt. For me, it seems like NPR has been around forever, and not in a bad way. I'll need it forever. But it was chartered in 1970, and Lisa Napoli writes that it was to serve those whose needs were woefully underrepresented
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