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How We Got Here #61 looks at the role of women in Egypt and in Egyptian protest movements. Historian Mona Russell of East Carolina University, author of Creating the New Egyptian Woman, underscores the central place of women in Egyptian society. Also The World’s Lisa Mullins interviews historian Mike Rapport, author of 1848: Year of Revolution. Lots of parallels between Europe in 1948 and the uprisings we’re witnessing in North Africa and the Middle East today. Download MP3
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The World Economic Forum is going on right now in Davos, Switzerland. The annual gathering attracts many of the world’s top business leaders. Usually that means a whole lot of men and very few women. This year, though, organizers have imposed a gender quota on top corporate participants. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Pakistani economist Saadia Zahidi. She heads the forum’s “gender parity program.” Download MP3
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There’s a lot of anger and hate in this week’s cartoons, against the Roma, Muslims, women, and government. But there’s also an act of contrition from an unlikely source.
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Many colleges and universities in the US compete fiercely for foreign students. But there’s one group of potential students that until recently went largely untapped: women from the Arab and Muslim World. More of them are now attending women’s colleges here, as The World’s Katy Clark discovered. Download MP3 (Photo of Mount Holyoke freshman Lubna Saqran by Katy Clark)
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The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to tackle a particularly disturbing tactic of war this week: the use of rape as a weapon. Perhaps the worst recent cases have been in places like eastern Congo, where armed groups have used rape to terrorize communities. Jeb Sharp talks with Anne-Marie Goetz of UNIFEM, the UN’s development agency for women. Download MP3 (Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
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The U.N. General Assembly authorized a new U.N. agency for women last week. We’ll look at the years of advocacy that led to it. The World’s Jason Margolis helps answer a listener’s question about how this economic crisis compares to past ones, especially in terms of U.S. debt. And The World’s Alex Gallafent rereads Bertolt Brecht on the Crash of 1929.
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Despite Russia’s constitutional guarantee of equal employment for men and women, there is a list of 460 jobs that are legally off limits to women. Correspondent Jessica Golloher tells us about some of them. Listen
Author and critic Helen Epstein talks to World Books Editor Bill Marx about three recent memoirs by women, each with a distinctive international flavor. The pair evaluate Jan Wong’s “A Comrade Lost and Found,” Christina Thompson’s “Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All,” and Jane Alison’s “The Sisters Antipodes.”
