Women's Center - Western Illinois University

July 24, 2009

51%
51% 7/24/09 @ 12-12:30 p.m. 91.3 FM Tri States Public Radio. 51% takes a serious & intelligent look at society's impact on women & their impact on society. Topics: Discrimination of women police officers; Education

FR: WAMC, Albany, NY
RE: 51 PERCENT program rundown

In America, women make up more than half the population. Worldwide, women are expected to outnumber men within the next 50 years. And every issue we face is one that affects us all. Whether it’s the environment, health, our children, politics or the arts, there’s a women’s perspective, and 51% is a radio program dedicated to that viewpoint.

Host Susan Barnett talks to experts in their field for a wide-ranging, entertaining discussion of issues that not only fall into the traditional ‘women’s issues’ category, but topics that concern us all as human beings and citizens of the global community.

Broadcast of 51% on WIUM 91.3 FM is underwritten by the Western Organization for Women (WOW).

Here is this week's information on 51% #1045

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BILLBOARD – Susan Barnett (:55) (Music Out)

Do an Internet search of women police officers discrimination; news stories from all over the country will pop up. California, Michigan, Alabama, New York: women who say they were doing their jobs file charges that they face sexual harassment and discrimination. Many of them quit. Debra Hartley, a grandmother from Pennsylvania, quit, too. But she didn't stop fighting. Earlier this month, she walked from her home in Effort, Pennsylvania to Washington, DC to call attention to the issue. I spoke with her as she was walking.

7:45 1045 edited cops debra hartley

Debra Hartley is no longer a cop. She's going back to school at the University of Pennsylvania and studying to be a lawyer.

Coming up, details on a new international effort to help girls get an education. And a daughter remembers her mother as the flowers bloom in her backyard.

If you missed part of our show, you can find us online at wamc.org or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD - you'll need to know the program number. This week's show is #1045. (9:38)

What is an education worth? President Obama has called on Americans to go back to school. An education can be the difference between a struggle and a comfortable life. That's true in other parts of the world as well, countries where sometimes girls are an afterthought when it comes to the classroom. Washington correspondent Laura Iiyama reports on a new campaign to give girls a chance at the advantages an education can provide.

5:03 Education Iiyama

To find out more, go to campaignforeducation.org.

Education's not cheap. And the cost of college has become prohibitive. So just how much should you spend? And if you're a parent, how far in debt should you go for your children? Personal finance expert Manisha Thakor has a simple formula to figure it out.

4:12 Higher Ed Thakor

Manisha Thakor is an author and personal finance expert who lives in Texas and New Mexico. To find out more, go to manishathakor.com.

And finally, sometimes flowers aren't just flowers. Sometimes they can be family. Commentator Megan Galbraith explains.

3:19 Galbraith Flowers

Megan Galbraith is director of communications at the State University of New York at Albany.

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That's it for this week.
If you'd like to get in touch, you can email me at sbarnett@wamc.org.
Thanks to Katie Britton and Glenn Busby for production assistance.
Our theme music is by Kevin Bartlett.
And thank you for listening. Join us again next week for 51% The Women's Perspective.

That's it for this edition of 51%
Thanks for listening. If you have any comments about today's program or ideas for future shows, please e-mail me at sbarnett@wamc.org.
For 51%, I'm Susan Barnett.

(:24 pads out to 25:00)
Tune to 51% weekly throughout the U. S. on public and community radio stations, some ABC Radio Network stations, Armed Forces Radio stations around the world and on the Internet.

Susan Barnett, producer and host of 51%, is an award winning veteran journalist whose career has included anchoring and producing television news, radio news, writing for magazines and authoring a weekly column for an online newspaper. She’s a published fiction writer and an aspiring hobo. She lives in Woodstock, NY.

51%- The Women’s Perspective. It’s not just for women.

July 17, 2009

51%
51% 7/17/09 @ 12-12:30 p.m. 91.3 FM Tri States Public Radio. 51% takes a serious & intelligent look at society's impact on women & their impact on society. Topics: Teenage Dating Abuse; Genocide & more

FR: WAMC, Albany, NY
RE: 51 PERCENT program rundown

In America, women make up more than half the population. Worldwide, women are expected to outnumber men within the next 50 years. And every issue we face is one that affects us all. Whether it’s the environment, health, our children, politics or the arts, there’s a women’s perspective, and 51% is a radio program dedicated to that viewpoint.

Host Susan Barnett talks to experts in their field for a wide-ranging, entertaining discussion of issues that not only fall into the traditional ‘women’s issues’ category, but topics that concern us all as human beings and citizens of the global community.

Broadcast of 51% on WIUM 91.3 FM is underwritten by the Western Organization for Women (WOW).

Here is this week's information on 51% #1044

(SHOW THEME)

BILLBOARD Susan Barnett (:58) (Music Out)

A survey of more than a thousand teenagers....finds more than one in three has been sexually or physically abused or threatened with physical abuse by their boyfriend or girlfriend. Nearly half report being victimized by controlling behavior from their boyfriend or girlfriend. A campaign aims to bring attention to the issue....to curb teenage dating abuse, which can lead to far worse consequences than hurt feelings. Washington correspondent Laura Iiyama has more:

9:56 teen abuse Iiyama

Coming up, a photo collection with the aim of finding an answer to genocide...and a look at what money means to us.

If you missed part of our show, you can find us online at wamc.org or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD - you'll need to know the program number. This week's show is #1044. (11:37)

Genocide - the word, for some, brings up the horrors of the Holocaust. Others think of Darfur. But what about Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia, the events the Armenians call The Great Calamity...the systematic destruction of Armenians that the Turkish government still refuses to label a genocide. Many scholars say the Armenian Holocaust was the first modern genocide. The targeting of one group for mass murder is an ugly constant in human history. Photographer Lane Montgomery has traveled the globe and collected photos that show the raw truth about genocide. It's called “Never Again, Again, Again.”

5:58 Montgomery

Lane Montgomery's book, “Never Again, Again, Again: Genocide: Armenia, The Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur.” It is published by Ruder Finn Press.

And finally, let's talk about that paper and coin system that's now central to the functioning of the world economy. Sabrina Artel looks at money - and whether this recession is changing how we see it.

4:16 Artel

To hear more from the kitchen table in Sabrina Artel's tag along trailer, go to SabrinaArtel.com.
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That's it for this week.
If you'd like to get in touch, you can email me at sbarnett@wamc.org.
Thanks to Katie Britton and Glenn Busby for production assistance.
Our theme music is by Kevin Bartlett.
And thank you for listening. Join us again next week for 51% The Women's Perspective.

That's it for this edition of 51%
Thanks for listening. If you have any comments about today's program or ideas for future shows, please e-mail me at sbarnett@wamc.org.
For 51%, I'm Susan Barnett.

(:24 pads out to 25:00)
Tune to 51% weekly throughout the U. S. on public and community radio stations, some ABC Radio Network stations, Armed Forces Radio stations around the world and on the Internet.

Susan Barnett, producer and host of 51%, is an award winning veteran journalist whose career has included anchoring and producing television news, radio news, writing for magazines and authoring a weekly column for an online newspaper. She’s a published fiction writer and an aspiring hobo. She lives in Woodstock, NY.

51%- The Women’s Perspective. It’s not just for women.

July 10, 2009

51%
51% 7/10/09 @ 12-12:30 p.m. 91.3 FM Tri States Public Radio. 51% takes a serious & intelligent look at society's impact on women & their impact on society. Topic: Iran, Lyme Disease & credit cards

FR: WAMC, Albany, NY
RE: 51 PERCENT program rundown

In America, women make up more than half the population. Worldwide, women are expected to outnumber men within the next 50 years. And every issue we face is one that affects us all. Whether it’s the environment, health, our children, politics or the arts, there’s a women’s perspective, and 51% is a radio program dedicated to that viewpoint.

Host Susan Barnett talks to experts in their field for a wide-ranging, entertaining discussion of issues that not only fall into the traditional ‘women’s issues’ category, but topics that concern us all as human beings and citizens of the global community.

Broadcast of 51% on WIUM 91.3 FM is underwritten by the Western Organization for Women (WOW).

Here is this week's information on 51% # 1043

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BILLBOARD - Susan Barnett (:45) (Music Out)

For a few days in June, the whole world was Iran. We watched the violence and the protests in real time thanks to social networks, cell phones and the Internet. And Hadi Ghaemi, director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, headquartered in NYC. I spoke with him by phone from Paris about what formed what appears to be a new movement in Iran, and what he sees as its future.

6:19 Iran - Ghaemi

Coming up, the medical community is taking a second look at its standards for treating Lyme disease. We'll have a roundtable discussion with women who say they're convinced that, up until now, doctors have had it wrong.

If you missed part of our show, you can find us online at wamc.org or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD - you'll need to know the program number. This week's show is #1043. (7:57)

There's a war within the medical community over Lyme disease. The number of patients is growing, but one camp claims a short course of antibiotics cures it. Another camp has reams of files showing that people with long term Lyme need far more drastic interventions and for far longer. I was one of the lucky ones. My Lyme showed up in the first test and within a month or so of the infection. I spoke with a group of women who haven't been that fortunate.

8:53 Lyme roundtable

The online support community can be found at atwistoflyme.com. The review of treatments ordered by Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal is expected to issue its findings next year.

And finally, finance expert, Manisha Thakor, takes a look at the new federal regulations for credit cards...and why the most important changes will have to come from the people who use them.

4:13 Thakor Credit Cards

Manisha Thakor is a personal finance expert and author. You can find out more about her at manishathakor.com

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That's it for this week.
If you'd like to get in touch, you can e-mail me at sbarnett@wamc.org.
Thanks to Katie Britton and Glenn Busby for production assistance.
Our theme music is by Kevin Bartlett.
And thank you for listening. Join us again next week for 51% The Women's Perspective.

That's it for this edition of 51%
Thanks for listening. If you have any comments about today's program or ideas for future shows, please e-mail me at sbarnett@wamc.org.
For 51%, I'm Susan Barnett.

(:24 pads out to 25:00)
Tune to 51% weekly throughout the U. S. on public and community radio stations, some ABC Radio Network stations, Armed Forces Radio stations around the world and on the Internet.

Susan Barnett, producer and host of 51%, is an award winning veteran journalist whose career has included anchoring and producing television news, radio news, writing for magazines and authoring a weekly column for an online newspaper. She’s a published fiction writer and an aspiring hobo. She lives in Woodstock, NY.

51%- The Women’s Perspective. It’s not just for women.