Equal Time with Martha Burk

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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.

Want a Better Country? Here's a Wish List

Aug 28, 2023

August is the month when we commemorate the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, passed in 1920. But we're still behind lots of other countries when it comes to equality. Let's look around the world to see how we can, and should, do better.

It’s the Dog Days of Summer – and some of ‘em are going to debate.

Aug 21, 2023

Summer in August is known as “dog days” – hot and muggy, panting canines with tongues hanging out, alongside their disgruntled people.

In a few days some of those very disgruntled people – Republican people – will be taking the debate stage to see who can out-do the others on why they want to be the next...

U.S. Women's Soccer Team: A victory greater than the world cup

Aug 14, 2023

The U.S. Women's Soccer Team won't be in the World Cup finals this year, but even if they were and took the trophy, it wouldn't have been their greatest victory. That happened in 2022 off the playing field. And it will last much longer than any given game.

Is Barbie REALLY a New Woman? Don't Count on It!

Aug 7, 2023

I said I wasn’t gonna do it, but in the end I gave in. Went to see the Barbie movie. She’s still tall, thin, white, sporting signature long blond hair. But Barbiedom is diverse now. A few non white girls (one is a Black future President). One fat Barbie, one wheelchair Barbie briefly in the opening scene. And...