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More Than Half the World - Women Working
Broadcast of More Than Half the World, noted as "More Than Half the World - Women Working" on side A and B. Judy Pasternak hosts broadcast themed around women at work. Includes excerpts from poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing about women working. Plays music and shares updates including a fundraising plea to pay for WBAI reporters to travel to Texas for Internation Women's Day Programming. -
More Than Half the World - Jeannie Pool
Broadcast of More than Half the World, hosted by Jeannie Pool, and inscribed as “More Than Half the World - Jeannie Poole” on both side A and B. In this broadcast, Pool: plays several songs by women musicians, including multiple by Meg Christian; interviews Audre Lorde on The Cancer Journal; takes calls from listeners; discusses the upcoming First National Congress on Women in Music and plans to move the conference to NYU in March; discusses Heresies magazine issue No. 10 on Women in Music; interviews Sue Fink, the conductor of the Los Angeles Women's Community Chorus; and plays live recordings of the LA Women's Community Chorus performing. There are severe audio issues at the beginning of the access copy, which resolve after a couple of minutes. Note the discrepancy in Pool’s name as written in the inscribed title. -
More Than Half The World - Women Alone
Broadcast of Women Alone Speak Out, noted as “Women Alone,” on both side A and side B. In this broadcast, host Judy Pasternak reflects on her experience living alone as an adult woman, in defiance of societal expectations. She plays an old set of interviews she conducted with women who also were living or had lived alone, as well as intermittent music. -
More Than Half the World - A Pretty Face is not Safe in this City
Side A: Host discusses women's rights and justice in the United States. Show features various feminist musicians. ^^Side B: Host and callers discuss women in music, societal change as well as women’s rights. -
More Than Half the World - Abortion
Host, Judy Pasternak, discusses abortion and the struggle for the legal right of women to have control over their bodies. In her reflection upon the legal battle surrounding this issue, Pasternak notes that the majority of the individuals making these decisions from a federal level down to its local implementation are male identifying. In her past experience and many other of the callers, the medical infrastructure and service providers were male which they felt impacted their care and the comportment of the medical team.