Monday, February 27, 2017: Tribute to Aileen Hernandez

Aileen Hernandez (1926-2017)

Women's Magazine presents a short tribute to Aileen Hernandez, who died a couple weeks ago. Aileen was the second national president of the National Organization for Women, the first woman on the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission and the founder of Black Women Stirring the Waters. She was also active in Women's International League for Peace & Freedom.

A celebration of Eileen Hernandez' life will be held Monday, March 6 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM at the San Francisco City Hall. Gloria Steinem and Belva Davis and others will speak.

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Also on today's show:
Roxann Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whittaker: Countering Myths About Indigenous Women

Women's Magazine April 29, 2013: Daily Sexism

When Deborah Copaken Kogan learned she was long-listed for Britain's Women's Prize for Fiction, she looked it up and found that it was nearly always preceded with the words "prestigious" and "controversial."  What's the controversy?  Some people think the time for separate literary prizes for men and women is past; women are equal in fiction, right?  Not so, says the author of The Red Book and Shutterbabe.  She speaks with Kate Raphael about the "little paper cuts" of sexism from the literary establishment and her article "My So-Called Feminist Life in Arts and Letters" published in the April 13 issue of The Nation.  Listen now:


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And as May Day approaches, we hear from Aileen Clarke Hernandez, second president of the National Organization for Women, labor organizer and the first woman appointed to the EEOC.  Hernandez talks about the role of radical economic justice activists in creating what we think of as liberal middle-class feminism.  Listen below:



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