Lectures tagged "women's rights"

How Women's Freedom Will Determine the World's Future
Michelle Goldberg
April 23, 2009
00:53:12
Michelle Goldberg exposes the global war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the future of global development, as described in her new work, The Means of Reproduction: How Women's Freedom Will Determine the World's Future.
Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa
Pamela Brooks
April 2, 2009
01:15:47
Pamela Brooks shares from her new book Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa.
Women Against the Vote: Anti-Suffragists in Massachusetts
Aliza Saivetz
March 12, 2009
00:37:31
Aliza Saivetz of Old South Meeting House, and Jayne Gordon and Kathleen Barker of the Massachusetts Historical Society explore women's participation in the anti-suffrage movement.
Suffrage and Beyond: Boston Women's Legal History
Bonnie Hurd Smith
March 5, 2009
00:38:48
Local historian Bonnie Hurd Smith looks at four centuries of women's legal history in Boston, as discussed in her recent book Boston Women & The Law.
Women's Journey Toward Equality
Rosalind Chait Barnett
November 17, 2008
Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney presents Rosalind Chait Barnett, director of the Community, Families, and Work Program at Brandeis University with the 2008 Anne Roe Award.
Women Waging Peace: Women as Leaders of Peace Processes
Swanee Hunt
December 5, 2007
00:52:53
Ambassador Swanee Hunt advocates for women of all ages, religions, and ethnic backgrounds to be leaders in peace processes, especially as a means to end war and rebuild societies, as well as to alleviate poverty and other human suffering.
Social Business Enterprise and a World Without Poverty
Muhammad Yunus
October 13, 2007
01:06:39
Microfinancing pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus shares the story of a bank that defies convention by lending small sums of money to the very poor. Microfinancing, he says, lifts the impoverished out of poverty by helping them become small-scale entrepreneurs.
An Agenda for 21st Century Women
Mende Nazer
April 20, 2007
01:50:07
Five distinguished women bring the theme "Stand Up, Speak Up: an Agenda for 21st Century Women" to life through dialogue rooted in their areas of expertise: the persistence of slavery, ensuring clean water, empowerment through the vote, women's roles in postcolonial societies and the challenge of en