ALL EPISODES
Simine Vazire, an associate professor of psychology at UC Davis, shares why the methods and practices in psychological science need to change–and what she and her organization, the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science–are doing about it.
Simine Vazire
LISTEN ON: APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | PANDORA | SPOTIFY | NPR ONE | MORE
It's not enough to just have a great idea and people will follow you. So Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez work with leaders to communicate their transformational ideas to drive real change–such as Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" presentation and Michael Pollan's call to eat mostly plants. And now they have written a book for leaders called "Illuminate. Ignite change through speeches, stories, ceremonies and symbols." Duarte and Sanchez also run Duarte Inc., the largest communications company in Silicon Valley, and the 5th largest women-owned business in the area and they are partners to top brands around the world.
PATTI SANCHEZ & NANCY DUARTE
The latest in the sharing economy--Splacer is the so-called "Airbnb" for event spaces. Maria and her team are working to create more access to unique spaces for everything from corporate meetings to photo shoots. Founded in Israel, they are now in New York and San Francisco--and soon Los Angeles. Their co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Maria Molland, has also helped build businesses for Yahoo!, Thompson Reuters, eBay and Fab.
LISTEN ON: APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | PANDORA | SPOTIFY | NPR ONE | MORE
Only about a quarter of computer professionals are women--and that's actually down from 1990 when it was 36%. Girls Who Code is a non-profit organization whose mission is to change all that by closing the gender gap in computer science. Founded in 2012 by Reshma Saujani, the program is on track to educate more than 40,000 girls in all 50 states this year. Her goal: one million women in computer science by 2020. And we'll need them. In less than 10 years, the United States will have 1.7 million jobs for engineers and computing professionals. Without girls, we will literally not have enough qualified people to fill these jobs.
RESHMA SAUJANI
Pentagon and related budgets will account for more than half of all federal discretionary spending--almost $600 billion in 2015. That's roughly the size of the next seven largest military budgets around the world, combined--while non-defense related spending continues to shrink. How much are we getting for those billions? And more to the point, what are we losing? Jennifer Harris, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor to Hillary Clinton during her tenure in the State Dept-- has co-authored a book called "War by Other Means. Geoeconomics and Statecraft" proposing new prescriptions for how the government spends our money.
JENNIFER HARRIS
Award-winning historian Dr. Amanda Foreman argues that a history that pushes women to the margins is an untruth that must be challenged. To this end, she created the four-part documentary series "The Ascent of Woman" with the BBC (and available now on Netflix). It is the first documentary to present the history of women from the dawn of civilization to the modern day.
DR. AMANDA FOREMAN
An unsettling power struggle over women's sports is trending at universities across the nation resulting in a decline of women's coaches from 90% in 1973 to 43% today. That's according to a recent report from "Reveal," the radio show from the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. They found that Title IX--which was enacted in 1972 to eliminate gender discrimination from educational institutions--may have had some unintended consequences for female coaches. Annie Brown shares what she learned when she investigated this story. Listen to our conversation on iTunes or NPR One.
ANNIE BROWN
BARBARA ORTIZ HOWARD
Do you remember the $1 coins featuring Susan B. Anthony? That coin is now out of print-- and we've never had a woman on our paper currency. Barbara Ortiz Howard has taken issue with this and formed an organization called Women on 20s to advocate for a woman on our $20 bill. They petitioned President Obama and met with Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew and Treasurer Rosie Rios to ensure that their voices were heard--and that "a woman's place is on the money." She shares what happened next in this conversation.
For the latest on who's on the money, visit the Department of the Treasury's site.
It's been 43 years since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v Wade decision gave women the legal right to end a pregnancy as a matter of privacy. And yet since the case was released in 1973, it has remained one of the most polarizing, politicized and continually challenged issues in America. My guest Ilyse Hogue is the President of NARAL Pro Choice America, formed in 1969 as an advocacy group to expand--and now protect-- reproductive freedom. Listen to our conversation on iTunes or NPR One.
ILYSE HOGUE
LISTEN ON: APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | PANDORA | SPOTIFY | NPR ONE | MORE
Coined the "crazy woman's disease" by some of those who have had it--or the "career woman's disease" by those who have attempted to diagnose it--it's been outed by celebrities like Padma Lakshmi, Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, and Lena Dunham who have all experienced the effects of it. And if you have a daughter or a niece, the odds are that you know someone with it. Yet it typically takes 8 doctors and 10 years to be properly diagnosed, resulting in years of pain, depression and loss of productivity, often starting in the teen years. Filmmaker Shannon Cohn says after breast cancer, it's "the last great health taboo" and has made a film called "Endo-What?" to change the narrative around Endometriosis and help women and healthcare practitioners understand and treat the disease.
SHANNON COHN