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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.

Oct 31, 2022

Halloween day wraps up October and ends with ghosts and goblins out in force. But there’s something a lot scarier than black cats, bats, and skeletons to be afraid of.


Oct 24, 2022

Early voting has started, and we hope the majority – women – will turn out big time. But here’s a tale of women  who got the vote real early – in the late 1800s. And who knows? It might really have happened.


Oct 17, 2022

Can you really make social change through music?  Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and John Lennon are icons of the protest songs of the '60s and '70s. Notice anything?  Try this . . . .


Oct 10, 2022

Quick – who discovered America? If your mind instantly jumped to Columbus, you’re with the vast majority of U.S. citizens. Since 1937 when President Roosevelt bowed down to the Catholic poohbahs of the Knights of Columbus by establishing Columbus Day as national holiday, generations of students have been taught that...


Oct 3, 2022

Love it or hate it, we're in a brand new election year. What with the lowest rating for Congress in history and the gridlock on Capitol Hill, this may seem like less than the greatest news.  But women ought to be pretty enthusiastic. Women can control any election, and are letting the candidates know it.