Celebrating the influential and inspirational women in our lives

In continuing to honor Women’s History Month, listeners share personal stories about the women who’ve made the greatest impact in shaping them into who they are.

Inequity in women’s sports — it’s more than just about equal pay

We’ve come a long way, but the recent situation with Olympic champion Brittney Griner being detained in Russia shows there’s still more to be done for equal treatment of women in sports.

Women Couldn’t Fly Without A Man — Until She Changed Things

Magnolia’s Lynn Rippelmeyer tells how fate — in the form of some bad weather — allowed her and her mentor to make aviation history.

Program Helps Immigrant Women In Houston Launch Child Care Businesses During The Pandemic

21 states including Texas are poised to ban or severely restrict abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned

Truck Driving Has Long Been A Man’s World. Meet The Women Changing That

A Team Of Mostly Women Races To Make History At The Indianapolis 500

Black Women Writers in History

Sunday, March 6th
We go to the archives to revisit Black Women Writers in History, a program that examines important African-American writers, beginning with the 18th century’s Phyllis Wheatley and concluding with former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. This show also features the late Margaret Walker and Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as recordings from the Folkways collection called “Black American History in Ballad, Song, and Prose”.

Black Women in History

Sunday, March 6th
While black women have played a critical role in the development of the nation, their stories have been mostly overlooked. In the new book, “A Black Women’s History of the United States”, historians Daina Ramey Berry PhD, and Kali Nicole Gross, honor the many significant contributions of Black women who have worked tirelessly to build this country and fight for social justice in the face of racism and sexism.

Humankind: “The Extraordinary Life of Dorothy Day”

Sunday, March 13th
This Women’s History Month special will profile Dorothy Day — a remarkable 20th century figure. Dorothy Day was a journalist and the founder of the “Catholic Worker” movement, which established soup kitchens and “houses of hospitality” in the Great Depression. More than 200 Catholic worker facilities remain in operation today. Hear the provocative story of her social activism and inspiring spiritual beliefs.

BBC Witness: “Women’s History Month Special”

Sunday, March 20th
This hour-long special features remarkable stories of women’s history, told by the women who were there. Selected from the BBC’s Witness History program, we hear moving, inspiring, and even outrageous stories about a few of the most important women in living memory.

Rocket Girls and Astro-netts

Sunday, March 27th
This program is the story of women in the ultimate Man’s World — the labs and Shuttle crew cabins of NASA. Told in the first person, these stories explore the experiences of NASA’s first woman engineers and scientists and its first astronauts. It also tells the fascinating story of a group of women pilots who, in the early 1960s, were led to believe that they would be America’s first women astronauts and were given the exact same physical tests are the Mercury astronauts. The program is narrated by retired astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman commander of a Space Shuttle.