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Equal Time with Martha Burk is a weekly 2 ½ minute podcast, with occasional 30 minute interviews on current affairs.  She covers political issues, how decisions in Washington and around the world affect ordinary citizens, particularly women (with no shouting), historical anniversaries of note, what’s changed and what hasn’t. Lively, pithy commentary on a wide variety of important topics with a light (and sometimes irreverent) touch: past progress, needed future advances, and what’s at stake now for women and men -- as citizens, as voters, and inhabitants of the world we live in and help to shape. And -- you'll almost always learn something you didn't know.

Jul 31, 2023

The Civil Rights Act  prohibiting pay discrimination against women and minorities was passed August 1964. Some thought it was a joke  As Black Women's Equal Pay Day is marked in August of 2023, it's looking like they were right.


Jul 24, 2023

Rockefeller, Astor, Carnegie, Stanford. Rich guys from the late 1900s for sure, but what else? Robber barons. Big boys at the top of U.S. business, who used unethical methods to exploit workers to line their own pockets big time.

They’re back, and you know their companies very well

 


Jul 17, 2023

When Neil Armstrong touched down on the moon in 1969, NASA had a "No Girls Allowed" sign firmly on its figurative door. Come 2024 that giant step will be for humankind.


Jul 10, 2023

A new group is mobilizing Moms across the country, hoping to change the way schools teach and operate, and they've got some high profile support. Would you want your Mom to join?


Jul 3, 2023

July 4, 1776 marked the Declaration of Independence from Britain. But the founding fathers made one mistake that endures to this day.