Pink Collar Workers: Zephyr Wright

Womanica

Acast Creative Studios

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Zephyr Wright (1915-1988) served as President Lyndon B. Johnson's personal chef for nearly three decades. While her southern cooking filled stomachs and won hearts, her experiences as a Black woman in the Jim Crow South inspired Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Act.

This month, we're bringing back some of our favorite Womanica episodes you might have missed! We'll be talking about Pink Collar Workers: women who revolutionized jobs that have traditionally been called "women's work." Through their lives, they created a more just and humane world for us today.

History classes can get a bad rap, and sometimes for good reason. When we were students, we couldn't help wondering... where were all the ladies at? Why were so many incredible stories missing from the typical curriculum? Enter, Womanica. On this Wonder Media Network podcast we explore the lives of inspiring women in history you may not know about, but definitely should.

Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we'll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know–but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Educators, Villains, Indigenous Storytellers, Activists, and many more. Womanica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures.

Womanica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Grace Lynch, Maddy Foley, Brittany Martinez, Edie Allard, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, Sara Schleede, Paloma Moreno Jimenez, Luci Jones, Abbey Delk, Adrien Behn, Alyia Yates, Vanessa Handy, Melia Agudelo, and Joia Putnoi. Special thanks to Shira Atkins.

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1:15.5	Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica.
1:20.3	This August, we're bringing back some of our favorite Womanica episodes you might have missed.
1:24.7	All month, we'll be talking about pink-collar workers.
1:27.7	These women revolutionized jobs that have traditionally been called women's work.
1:31.9	Through their lives, they created a more just and humane world for us today.
1:35.9	With that, here's one of our favorite episodes.
1:47.6	Hi, I'm Kea DeMone.
1:52.1	I'm a Florida burn chef, writer, host, and recipe developer.
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