Equal Time with Martha Burk

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.

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...

August 1964 Civil Rights Act -- A Joke on Women?

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.

The Robber Baron's are Back -- And One of Them is From Disney

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

Giant Steps: They Are Achangin'

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.