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Shows from 1997

Title: "Year-Ender "
Date: 12/26/97
Program Number: 640
Panelists: Arianna Huffington, Irene Natividad, Elaine Chao, Judsen Culbreth
Topics:

Women in 1997

Girl Power-interview with HHS Secretary Donna Shalala on a program to raise self-esteem in girls.

Title: "Women and Ambition "
Date: 12/19/97
Program Number: 638
Panelists:Arianna Huffington, Irene Natividad, Elaine Chao, Judsen Culbreth
Topics:

Children and cyber-porn

The GOP courting women

Women and ambition-in a new survey, Working Mother Magazine finds many women are proud to call themselves ambitious.

Title: "Standardizing Mammograms "
Date: 12/5/97
Program Number: 637
Panelists:Arianna Huffington, Diane Rehm, Julianne Malveaux, Susan Au Allen
Topics:

Declining abortion rates

Same-sex sexual harrassment

The quality of mammograms-Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski talks about the need for higher standards.

Title: "American Foreign Aid and Family Planning "
Date: 11/28/97
Program Number: 636
Panelists:Irene Natividad, Ann Stone, Darlene Kennedy, Robin Duke
Topics:

Slapping teenage children

Barbie's new look

Family planning overseas-a first-hand look at how American funds are used in Morocco.

Title: "At-Risk Youth"
Date: 11/21/97
Program Number: 635
Panelists:Irene Natividad, Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, Elisa Sanchez, Ann Stone
Topics:

The Magnificent Seven

Women and courts-getting off easy

Girls and violence-Kansas City's Youthnet engages at-risk youth.

Title: "Women and Climate Change"
Date: 11/14/97
Program Number: 634
Panelists:Del. Elearnor Holmes Norton, Jan Parshall, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Wendy Gramm
Topics:

Feelings about adoption

Mothers favored in immigration law

Women and climate change-interview with EPA Administrator Carol Browner

Title: "Women Fighting Racism-Project Change"
Date: 11/7/97
Program Number: 633
Panelists:Linda Chavez, Irene Natividad, Jan Parshall, Anita Perez Ferguson
Topics:

The British au pair murder case-a lesson for working moms?

Men and plastic surgery

Women fighting racism-a look at Project Change

Title: "Unmarried Motherhood"
Date: 10/31/97
Program Number: 632
Panelists:Julianne Malveaux, Elaine Chao, Irene Natividad, Ann Stone
Topics:

The Utah gay rights lawsuit

Women at the polls

Single motherhood-author and single mom Melissa Ludtke talks about her experiences

Title: "Women and Power in the Senate"
Date: 10/24/97
Program Number: 631
Panelists: Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, Tillie Fowler, Harriett Woods, Darlene Kennedy
Topics:

White House Child Care Conference

The Million Woman March

Women gaining power in the Senate-interview with Freshman Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu

Title: "Women, Motherhood, and Feminism"
Date: 10/17/97
Program Number: 630
Panelists: Del. Elearnor Holmes Norton, Camille Paglia, Lynn Martin, Elaine Chao
Topics:

Women and technology

Women encounter chauvinism in the British House of Commons

Motherhood and feminism-author Anne Roiphe talks about bringing moms into the movement

Title: "Title IX"
Date: 10/10/97
Program Number: 629
Panelists: Camille Paglia, Lynn Martin, Irene Natividad, Darlene Kennedy
Topics:

Washington and women-author Marianne Williamson talks about the disconnect

Strengthening Title IX-Senator Moseley Braun talks about her Fair Play Act.

Title: "Women and Gossip"
Date: 10/3/97
Program Number: 628
Panelists: Arianna Huffington, Hazel O'Leary, Rep. Louise Slaughter, Elaine Chao
Topics:

The growing wage gap

Contraception legislation to stop unwanted pregnancies

Women and Gossip--interview with reporter Annie Groer

Title: "Working Mother Companies"
Date: 9/26/97
Program Number: 627
Panelists: Judsen Culbreth, Arianna Huffington, Susan Au Allen, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Topics:

Fen/Phen

Marv Albert Suit

Working Mother Companies

Title: "Women and Community Service"
Date: 9/19/97
Program Number: 626
Panelists: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Susan Au Allen, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jan Parshall
Topics:

Fall Fashion--gender bending?

Teens: violence, crime,and how love helps

Women and Community Service--interview with WETA founder Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell

Title: "Maasai Women"
Date: 09/12/97
Program Number: 625
Panelists: Ann Stone, Anita Perez Ferguson, Julianne Malveaux, Jan Parshall
Topics:

VMI, Citadel, and Aberdeen scandals

Paula Jones loses her lawyers

Maasai women and western influences

Title: "Women and Healthcare"
Date: 09/05/97
Program Number: 624
Panelists: Pat Schroeder, Connie Morella, Susan Au Allen, Irene Natividad
Topics:

Teens smoking and movie influence

NOW vs. Promise Keepers

Women and Healthcare, interview with Leslie Laurence

Title: "Pay Equity"
Date: 08/29/97
Program Number: 623
Panelists: Pat Schroeder, Connie Morella, Susan Au Allen, Hazel O'Leary
Topics:

G.I. Jane

Proposition 209

Pay Equity--interview with Senator Barbara Boxer
(D-CA)

Title: "Single-sex Education"
Date: 08/22/97
Program Number: 622
Panelists: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Linda Chavez, Jan Parshall, Julianne Malveaux
Topics:

Marital satisfaction survey: Couples without kids
more happy than those with kids

Brainy Barbies--the new Career Collection has
doctor Barbie, dentist Barbie and paleontologist Barbie

Does single-sex education empower or weaken girls?

Title: "Hutelmyer"
Date: 08/15/97
Program Number: 621
Panelists: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Darlene Kennedy, Irene Natividad, Victoria Toensing
Topics:

SBA makes it easier for white women to get
government contracts

Welfare reform is one year old

Hutelmyer ex-wife sues new wife and wins $1 million

Title: "Sidelining Women Reporters"
Date: 08/08/97
Program Number: 620
Panelists: Karen DeWitt, Elaine Shannon, Jan Parshall, Adrienne Washington
Topics:

Child support and fed real collection power

Older moms--costs and benefits to society

Sidelining women reporters--does society lose out
when women are not in positions of authority in the
media?

Title: "Princessa"
Date: 08/01/97
Program Number: 619
Panelists: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, Irene Natividad, Victoria Toensing
Topics:

Lilith Fair--a celebration of women in mainstream music

Fewer women on Capitol Hill after years of growth

Princessa: Women and power--do women need to act
like Machiavelli to get what they want?

Title: "Abortion Healing"
Date: 07/25 /97
Program Number: 618
Panelists: Julianne Malveaux, Susan Au Allen, Diane Rehm, Darlene Kennedy
Topics:

Wendt vs. Wendt--they are divorcing and she
helped his rise to power in GE, but he won't give
her half of their money

A new program to get wayward girls off the streets

Abortion healing--post-abortion emotions

Title: "Ground Zero"
Date: 07/18/97
Program Number: 617
Panelists: Irene Natividad, Elisa Sanchez, Darlene Kennedy, Susan Au Allen
Topics:

Women leaving their newborns for dead

A male executive is fired for telling a female coworker
about a racy TV show--he sued his former employer
and won $26 million

"Ground Zero," a book on women in military culture

Title: "D.C. Head Start"
Date: 07/11/97
Program Number: 616
Panelists: Pat Schroeder, Linda Chavez, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Darlene Kennedy
Topics:

The new Census and Multi ethnic Categories--what
do the new standards have in store for minorities,
congressional districts, and federal contracts? How will
these categories affect how we think of ourselves?

D.C. Head Start

Title: "Gender Economic Stereotypes"
Date: 07/04/97
Program Number: 615
Panelists: Hazel O'Leary, Jan Parshall, Chang Bloch, Julianne Malveaux
Topics:

"Lolita"--Nabokov's classic story about a man's
obsession with a 12 year old girl is a new $50 million
Jeremy Irons film. However no one in the US will
distribute it. Does Hollywood have a case of the
the morals?

Eastern Europe wants to stop American adoptions

Gender Economic Stereotypes--glass ceilings and
sticky floors. How far have women really come in the
work force? The average woman misses $420,000
over a lifetime of work. Interview with Heidi Hartmann
from the Institute for Women's Policy Research

Title: "Chore Wars--Men and Women on Dirt"
Date: 06/27/97
Program Number: 614
Panelists: Elaine Chao, Karen DeWitt, Harriet Woods, Jan Parshall
Topics:

Sexual identity and young girls--are we teaching
sexual responsibility? Interview with Naomi Wolf on
her new book, "Promiscuities."

Chore Wars: Sharing household work

Title: Clean Air--a Reality?"
Date: 06/20/97
Program Number: 613
Panelists: Irene Natividad, Elaine Chao, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Helen Chenoweth
Topics:

The 25th birthday of Title IX--how far have we come
and how far do we have left to go?

Genetic testing--a right of privacy issue, not for the
insurance companies

Strengthening Clean Air standards--protecting kids or
punishing businesses?

Title: "Fathers in the 90s"
Date: 06/13/97
Program Number: 612
Panelists: Irene Natividad, Lynn Martin, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Elaine Chao
Topics:

Republicans and Affirmative Action--are they pro AA
in their offices but against it as policy?

The new generation of American fathers

Title: "Wither Feminism"
Date: 06/06/97
Program Number: 611
Panelists: Irene Natividad, Darlene Kennedy, Josette Shiner, Eleanor Holmes Norton
Topics:

Secretary Cohen supports General Ralston despite
his record of adultery--women's groups are outraged

Feminists come to Paula Jones' defense after Clinton
White House threatens to delve into her sexual history

Title: "Women in Non Traditional Careers"
Date: 05/30/97
Program Number: 610
Panelists: Julianne Malveaux, Susan Au Allen, Lynn Martin, Anita Perez Ferguson
Topics:

Female Harvard professor denied tenure

Women in blue collar occupations

Title: "Protecting Your Assets"
Date: 05/23/97
Program Number: 609
Tape: Patricia Donlevy Rosen
Panelists: Julianne Malveaux, Josette Shiner, Lyn Martin, Anita Perez Ferguson
Topics:

Lieutenant Kelly Flynn faces court martial

Senate passes late term abortions

Protecting your assets

Title: "Minority Women in Higher Education"
Date: 05/16/97
Program Number: 608
Tape: Mills College
Panelists: Pat Schroeder, Linda Chavez, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jan Parshall
Topics:

Senator Susan Collins on women and fundraising

Students at Mills College ask for more faculty and
administrators of color

Title: "Bringing Up Girls"
Date: 05/09/97
Program Number: 607
Tape: Judy Mann
Panelists: Arianna Huffington, Linda Chavez, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Diane Rehm
Topics:

Custody battles

Bringing up daughters to have more self-esteem

Title: "Women & Law Schools"
Date: 05/02/97
Program Number: 606
Tape: Lani Guinier
Panelists: Geraldine Ferraro, Victoria Toensing, Irene Natividad, Darlene Kennedy
Topics:

Marriage annulments in the Catholic Church

Women in law schools aren't doing as well as men

Title: "Women in Business"
Date: 04/25/97
Program Number: 605
Tape: Wells Fargo Bank lending initiative
Panelists: Connie Morella, Elaine Chao, Hazel O'Leary, Harriet Woods
Topics:

63-year old woman gives birth

Presidents' Summit on Volunteerism

Women entrepreneurs are being solicited by banks

Title: "Female Athletes"
Date: 04/18/97
Program Number: 604
Tape: Christine Brennan
Panelists: Donna Shalala, Arianna Huffington, Susan Au Allen, Julianne Malveaux
Topics:

Clinton Administration launches new program to raise
self-esteem of young girls called Girl Power!

Female athletes

Earth Day: Environmental effects on women's health

Title: "Abolition of Marriage"
Date: 04/11/97
Program Number: 603
Tape: Maggie Gallagher
Panelists: Arianna Huffington, Jan Parshall, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Topics:

Talking to your kids about drugs

Abolition of marriage

Title: "Women in the Ministry"
Date: 04/04/97
Program Number: 602
Tape: Women Ministers
Panelists: Arianna Huffington, Julianne Malveaux, Irene Natividad, Josette Shiner
Topics:

New Study: Kids in day care do just as well as those
cared for by their mothers at home

Ellen DeGeneres'' TV character is out of the closet

Women in the ministry

Title: "Managed Care"
Date: 03/28/97
Program Number: 601
Tape: HMOs
Panelists: Dr. Antonia Novello, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Arianna Huffington, Anita Perez Ferguson
Topics:

Clinton Administration allocates federal funds for
abstinence education

Women navigating managed care

Title: "Access to Banking"
Date: 03/21/97
Program Number: 552
Panelists: Aida Alvarez, Irene Natividad, Darlene Kennedy, Susan Au Allen
Special Guest: Diana Dorn Jones
Topics:

Pornography on the Internet

Alexis Herman's confirmation hearings

African American entrepreneurs

Title: "Fireproof Your Career"
Date: 03/14/97
Program Number: 551
Panelists: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jan Parshall, Julianne Malveaux, Darlene Kennedy
Topics:

Army sex scandal

Late-term abortions

Interview with Lynn Wymon

Title: "Alternative Communications for Women"
Date: 03/07/97
Program Number: 550
Panelists: Irene Natividad, Arianna Huffington, Julianne Malveaux, Lynn Martin
Topics:

Fornication laws against pregnant teens

Child labor laws

Interview with Martha Burke of Feminist Faxnet

Title: "Women Peacemakers"
Date: 02/28/97
Program Number: 549
Panelists: Jean Kirkpatrick, Diane Rehm, Irene Natividad, Susan Au Allen
Topics:

Birth Control pills the morning after

Secretary of State Madeline Albright in China

Weaving Peace--Egyptian/Israeli women

Title: "Access to Women's Organizations"
Date: 02/21/97
Program Number: 548
Panelists: Anita Perez-Ferguson, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Harriet Woods, Kennedy, Prema Mathai-Davis (2nd half only)
Topics:

Flex time and women--legislation

Junior League reaches out to women and minorities

Title: "Peru and Population Issues"
Date: 02/14/97
Program Number: 547
Panelists: Geraldine Ferraro, Connie Morella, Darlene Kennedy, Harriett Woods, Robin Chandler Duke (2nd half only)
Topics:

Sexual harassment in the Army

Resource depletion in Peru & Population planning

Title: "Black History Month"
Date: 02/07/97
Program Number: 546
Panelists: Darlene Kennedy, Carol Moseley-Braun, Cynthia McKinney, Lynn Martin, Karen DeWitt (2nd half only)
Topics:

Welfare reform

Interview--Nell Irvin Painter on Sojourner Truth

Title: "Diversity on Campus"
Date:01/31/97
Program Number: 545
Panelists: Pat Schroeder, Lynn Martin, Susan Au Allen, Cynthia McKinney
Topics:

Drive-through mastectomies

Barnard's diversity program

Title: "The Emerging Hispanic Vote"
Date: 01/24 97
Program Number: 544
Panelists: Anita Perez Ferguson, Julia Chang Bloch, Irene Natividad, Arianna Huffington
Topics:

Beauty pageant pressures on girls--Jon Benet Ramsey

Emerging minority vote--interview with
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)

Title: "Women and Retirement"
Date: 01/17/97
Program Number: 543
Panelists: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Arianna Huffington, Karen DeWitt, Victoria Toensing
Topics:

Abortion bombing--Atlanta, GA

Mitsubishi /Jackson--Texaco

Interview with Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)

Title: "Women Legislators"
Date: 01/10/97
Program Number: 542
Panelists: Woods, Anita Perez Ferguson, Jan Parshall, Darlene Kennedy
Topics:

Immigration law and homosexuals

Interracial adoptions

Interview with Robin Reade

Title: "Dieting in America"
Date: 01/03/97
Program Number: 541
Panelists:Irene Natividad, Julianne Malveaux, Jan Parshall, Darlene Kennedy
Topics:

Dallas Cowboy's Michael Irvin--Williams charges

Evita phenomenon

New diet pills--interview with Sheldon Milner

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