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Shows from 1996

Title: "Year's End--1996"
Date: 12/27/96
Program Number: 540
Panelists: Josette Shiner, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Darlene Kennedy, Eleanor Holmes Norton
Topics:

Topless Nudity: Indecent in Canada?

Two-year ender

Title: "Equal Opportunity"
Date: 12/20/96
Program Number: 539
Panelists: Susan Au Allen, Jan Parshall, Bev Smith, Elaine Shannon
Topics:

Are holiday toys sexist?

Same-sex sexual harassment

Interview with Chris Matthews

Title: "Home Schooling"
Date:12/13//96
Program Number: 538
Panelists:
This program is a repeat of program 524, September 6, 1996.

Title: "Women and Travel"
Date: 12/06/96
Program Number: 537
This program is a repeat of program 519, August 2, 1996.

Title: "Drinking--A Love Story"
Date: 11/29/96
Program Number: 536
Panelists: Julianne Malveaux, Diane Rehm, Arianna Huffington, Dr. Antonia Novello
Topics:

STD's and girls' health education

Proposition 209

Interview with Carolyn Knapp on her new book about
her bout with alcoholism

Title:"Corporate Responsibility"
Date: 11/22/96
Program Number: 535
Panelists: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Tillie Fowler, (first segment only), Julia Chang Bloch
Topics:

Sexual harassment--Congressional women meet
Army brass

Giants hire alleged rapist

Interview with Helen Mills on corporate responsibility

Title: "Equal Opportunity"
Date: 11/15/96
Program Number: 534
Panelists: Cari Dominguez, Irene Natividad, Julianne Malveaux, Victoria Toensing
Topics:

The ABA and the WNBA

Estrogen and menopause

Interview with Robert Reich on women and pensions

Title:"The Presidential Elections"
Date:11/08/96
Program Number: 533
Panelists: Connie Morella, Irene Natividad
Topics:

Army Sexual Harassment--Aberdeen Proving Grounds

Clinton and women's vote

Woman candidates

Title: "Women and Corporate Leadership"
Date: 11/01/96
Program Number: 532
Topics:

Interview with Sheila Wellington of Catalyst

Title: "Women in Genesis"
Date: 10/25/96
Program Number: 531
Panelists:Susan Au Allen, Harriett Woods, Victoria Toensing, Irene Natividad
Topics:

What can politicians do to get the women's vote?

Women in Genesis: Is God a man or a woman?

Interview with Naomi Rosenblatt

Title: "Nurses in Healthcare"
Date: 10/18/96
Program Number: 530
Panelists: Darlene Kennedy, Elaine Shannon, Irene Natividad, Josette Shiner
Special Guest: Hurdis Griffith
Topics:

Three female students are suspended for having over-
the-counter painkillers at school--are "drug-free school
zones" getting out of hand?

"The Rules"--Women play hard to get to snag men

The future of nursing

Title: "Beyond Motherhood"
Date: 10/11/96
Program Number: 529
Panelists: Julianne Malveaux, Josette Shiner, Harriett Woods, Darlene Kennedy
Topics:

Sexual harassment in school

UN threatens to withhold aid from new Islamic
government in Afghanistan because it places women
under virtual house-arrest

Beyond motherhood--interview with Jeanne Safer

Title: "He Works - She Works"
Date: 10/04/96
Program Number: 528
Panelists: Bev Smith, Arianna Huffington, Susan Au Allen, Anita Perez Ferguson
Topics:

Women candidates

Both parents working--interview with co-authors
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett

Title: " Women and Conservation"
Date: 09/27/96
Program Number: 527
Panelists: Arianna Huffington, Karen DeWitt, Elaine Shannon, Darlene Kennedy
Topics:

UN is urged to make the sexual exploitation of children
an international crime

Republicans call this the first serious attempt to curb
illegal immigration in years, but some Democrats
say they want Clinton to veto the bill

Women and conservation--interview with Helen
Gichohi and Rosemary Kinyanjui

Title: "Summit on Ethics and Meaning"
Date: 09/20/96
Program Number: 526
Topics:

One year after the UN Convention on the Rights
of Women

Female chain gangs--Arizona

Politics of Meaning--interview with Michael Lerner and
the Washington Summit

Title: "Equal Opportunity--Gunderson"
Date: 09/13/96
Program Number: 525
Topics:

Iraq--Saddam Hussein ousts certain Curdish factions
from his country (women drew Iraq's borders to include
the Curds)

Baby boomers--drug use then and their children
using drugs now

Congressman Steve Gunderson--First openly gay
Republican, on men, women and sexuality. Interview
with Gunderson and partner Rob Morris

Title: "Values and Education"
Date: 09/06/96
Program Number: 524
Panelists: Jan Parshall, Irene Natividad, Julianne Malveaux, Darlene Kennedy
Topics:

Poll of American men who put family first

Home schooling--interview with Julie Wesoleck
of Calvert School

Title: "Democratic Convention"
Date: 08/30/96
Program Number: 523
Panelists: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Darlene Kennedy, Jan Parshall, Julianne Malveaux
Topics:

Democratic Convention: Succeeding in getting
women's votes

Hillary Rodham Clinton on family values

Title: "Women and Art"
Date: 08/23/96
Program Number: 522
Panelists: Camille Paglia, Julianne Malveaux, Bev Smith, Jan Parshall
Topics:

Women's health

Women and art by Judy Chicago

Title: "Republican Convention"
Date: 08/15/96
Program Number: 521
Panelists: Victoria Toensing, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Darlene Kennedy, Irene Natividad
Topics:

The Republican Convention and beyond--united
and divided

The gender gap--interview with Elizabeth Dole

Title: "Gay Marriages"
Date: 08/09/96
Program Number: 520
Panelists: Bev Smith, Camille Paglia, Jan Parshall, Julianne Malveaux
Topics:

Abortion and ethics at home and overseas

Same sex marriages--Hawaii is the first state to have
gay marriages

Interview with Torie Osborn

Title: "Women and Travel"
Date: 08/02/96
Program Number: 519
Panelists: Irene Natividad, Josette Shiner, Susan Au Allen, Elaine Shannon
Topics:

Outraged over garment industry sweatshops in the
U.S. and overseas--who's responsible for policing
these industries?

Women travelers: The number of women traveling
alone has skyrocketed

Title: "Sheila Frahm"
Date: 07/26/96
Program Number: 518
Topics:

Interview with Sheila Frahm--taking Bob Dole's place
in Senate

Title: "Republican War Against Women"
Date: 07/19/96
Program Number: 517
Panelists: Darlene Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Irene Natividad, Lynn Martin
Topics:

The cost of teen pregnancy has skyrocketed

Republican war against women

Interview with Tanya Melich

Title: "Women Olympians"
Date: 07/12/96
Program Number: 516
Panelists: Julianne Malveaux, Arianna Huffington, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Lynn Martin
Topics:

World population day--combating the spread of
HIV-AIDS

Coworkers are most often cited in sexual
harassment complaints

Women Olympians--gold for women athletes?

Title: "Women and the Minimum Wage"
Date: 07/05/96
Program Number: 515
Panelists: Harriett Woods, Cari Dominguez, Irene Natividad, Josette Shiner
Topics:

A majority of Americans believe churches should
express political opinions

Women and the minimum wage

Title: "Power Couples"
Date: 06/28/96
Program Number: 514
Panelists: Arianna Huffington, Karen DeWitt, Irene Natividad, Josette Shiner
Topics:

New Age Spirituality

Supreme Court weighs in at the all male VMI--
admit women or no federal funding

Power Couples--interview with Mr. and Mrs. Paris
Glendening

Title: "Equal Opportunity"
Date: 06/21/96
Program Number: 513
Panelists: Julianne Malveaux, Anita Perez Ferguson, Susan Au Allen, Jan Parshall
Special Guest: Ingrid Newkirk
Topics:

Animal rights versus AIDS research

Peter Kostmayer, Executive Director of Zero
Population Growth: Congress is poised to drastically
cut international family planning efforts

Title: "Joint Custody"
Date: 06/14/96
Program Number: 512
Panelists: Bev Smith, Elaine Shannon, Jan Parshall, Susan Au Allen
Topics:

Arson continues to destroy black churches and
threatens fragile race relations in the South

Dole attacks valuable conservative ally as he reopens
the abortion debate saying he wants a statement on
tolerance linked to the GOP's anti-abortion platform

Presumptive Joint Custody

Title: "UN Habitat Conference"
Date: 06/07/96
Program Number: 511
Panelists:Lynn Martin, Anita Perez Ferguson, Irene Natividad, Susan Au Allen
Topics:

Ultra-thin models

U.N. Conference on human settlements--Habitat II

Planning Ahead--Dianne Dillon-Ridgley

Title: "Women Voting for Women"
Date: 05/31/96
Program Number: 510
Panelists: Jan Parshall, Darlene Kennedy, Irene Natividad, Harriett Woods
Topics:

Children's movement--Clinton endorsed idea
while in New Orleans

Vigdis Finnbogadottir of Iceland becomes first
woman elected president in a free popular election

Title: "Women's Portrayal in History"
Date: 05/24/96
Program Number: 509
Panelists: Irene Natividad, Arianna Huffington, Julianne Malveaux, Camille Paglia
Topics:

A study by the Catalyst Institute shows there
are two distinct views on why so few women head
major corporations

Women's Portrayal in History

Title: "Equal Opportunity"
Date: 05/17/96
Program Number: 508
Panelists: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Josette Shiner, Julianne Malveaux, Jan Parshall
Topics:

Violent crimes have a new young face

Affirmative Action

Gender/race alienated middle-class back
into the political system--interview with Senator
Bill Bradley (D-NJ)

Date: 05/10/96
Program Number: 507
Panelists: Dr. Antonia Novello, Lynn Martin, Irene Natividad, Nancy Woodhull
Topics:

Women voters tend to favor Democrats; Dole
promises to stress his record on women's issues

Women's Health: NIH launches Women's Health
Initiative

Title: "Women and Asylum"
Date: 05/03/96
Program Number: 506
Panelists:Josette Shiner, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Darlene Kennedy, Anita Perez Ferguson
Topics:

Female genital mutilation--women may be
granted asylum in the U.S. to escape it

House Speaker Newt Gingrich was traipsing all
over the airwaves with a coterie of animals

Title: "Having It All--Can We?"
Date: 04/26/96
Program Number: 505
Panelists: Julianne Malveaux, Jan Parshall, Susan Au Allen, Harriett Woods
Topics:

Is the Dole campaign dead? William Bennett
accuses the campaign of lacking direction and purpose

Congresswoman Blanche Lampert Lincoln is
leaving Congress and having twins

Title: "Equal Opportunity"
Date: 04/19/96
Program Number: 504
Panelists: Arianna Huffington, Karen DeWitt, Elaine Shannon, Irene Natividad
Topics:

Madonna announces that she's with child

Mitsubishi officials tell workers a sexual harassment
suit filed against the company could cost them their
jobs

Women, Men, and Media: Front page coverage of
women is shrinking--interview with Howard K. Smith

Title: "Women and Taxes"
Date: 04/12/96
Program Number: 503
Panelists: Lyn Cutler, Lynn Martin, Susan Au Allen, Eleanor Holmes Norton
Topics:

Seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff was killed along
with her father and flight instructor when her plane
crashed in bad weather

Working women without college degrees may be
the swing voters of the '96 elections

Women and Taxes: America races to the April 15th
deadline--Taxing Times interview with Debbie Shuford

Title: "Life in Cyberspace"
Date: 04/05/96
Program Number: 502
Panelists: Julianne Malveaux, Arianna Huffington, Harriett Woods, Darlene Kennedy
Topics:

A nation remembers the triumphs and contributions
of Ron Brown--he was renowned for having credibility
in both the black and white communities

Two white California officers beat a Mexican man and
woman--illegal immigrants were part of a high speed
chase

Cruising while intoxicated on the Internet--cyberspace
interview with Sara Fitzgerald

Title:"Feminism Revisited"
Date: 03/29/96
Program Number: 501
Panelists: Lynn Martin, Bev Smith, Josette Shiner, Irene Natividad
Topics:

Mixed reactions to the first lady's European
trip as she visits US troops in Bosnia

Modern technology creates a new dilemma for
women--mammograms help doctors find tiny breast
tumors, but no one's sure what the proper treatment
should be

Feminism and the family--interview with Elizabeth Fox
Genovese

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