#32 "Female Rights Part II"

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Guest Biography: Zachary Efronov is a passionate advocate, educator, and changemaker who has spent over a decade championing women's rights on the local and national stage. While working with grassroots organizations and influencing policy nationally, he has consistently used his voice to highlight issues such as gender-based violence and gender equality. Efronov attended Barrymore College in New Hampshire, where he majored in gender studies and minored in public speaking. Since college, his work has been featured in major publications, and he has been a keynote speaker at conferences around the world. Beyond activism, he is also a mentor and community leader who empowers young people to pay attention to the discrepancy in gender roles even today
Episode Number: Students Podcasting History Episode #32
Episode Title: #32 "Female Rights Part II"
Episode Date: April 24, 2025
Key Words: Alice Paul, Mary Collson, Title IX, Equal Rights Amendment, Equal Pay Act of 1963, Gloria Stienem, International Women’s Day
Episode Introduction: Beginning as early as the 1870’s, women have struggled for equal rights as men, or even similar rights. Advocates for all kinds of equality began to emerge in the twentieth century, specifically the 1960’s and 70’s. As attention has slowly been brought to discrimination against women, the societal gap has gradually begun to close. Women even today still fight for freedom and equality. Women now have gained much more legal standing on the grounds of equality and opportunity. Even while women have come much closer to equality, the historical community still somewhat fails to understand the extent to which women are underappreciated. This podcast highlights the work that has been done in the twentieth century by both women and the government to try and promote the equality of women all across the United States. Using speech clips, newspaper articles, as well as book sources, this research emphasizes the bravery of some widely influential women in the twentieth century who spearheaded a lot of change that has been made. The research done in this podcast refers a lot to topics discussed in the course because of its emphasis on equality, and its ties to civil rights both in timeline and in nature.
Hosted By: Donald Quirius
Host Biography: is a retired journalist who attended the University of Northern Maine, where he majored in both Journalism and Gender Studies, with a minor in American History. Quirius began work for the American Bar Magazine after college, where he was placed into the history section to write primarily about the history of laws and executive orders in America’s time. He worked at the Bar Magazine for 8 years, before moving to the Southwest Chronicle, a relatively modern newspaper out of Tucson, Arizona. Don wrote articles ranging from the history of national parks to the history of newspapers during his time at the Chronicle . Don grew tired of writing similar stories over and over during his time with the newspaper, so Quirius soon moved away from writing and into the realm of public speaking. He gave speeches regarding women’s rights, as well as the history of women. His audiences were small and unsuccessful, so he soon moved behind the microphone and began his own podcast channel. USH II podcast began in 2023 with his first episode: In the Beginning there was Red. He began with a detailed account of the revolutionary war and grew slowly from there.
Guest: Zachary Efronov
The Show: Students Podcasting History is an educational resource developed by students in Dr. Andrew Maginn’s History of the United States II course to highlight crucial movements in American History through podcasting. The students research and interpret primary and secondary sources to discuss pivotal themes, people, and events in the United States' history from 1865 through the present. Through creatively sharing these narratives and learning digital tools, these students hope to make history more accessible and exciting for the general public.
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Rheta Childe Dorr, Susan B. Anthony , (New York, New York: AMS Press, 1970).
Sue McNamara, “Three American Women Lead Battle of Worldwide Citizenship Rights”, The Daily Alaska Empire, September 10, 1931.
Cynthia Grant Tucker, A Woman’s Ministry , (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1984).
R. Shep Melnick, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education , (Washington D.C.:Brookings Institution Press, 2018).
Alexandra Johnson, “Against the Work-Study Boundary: Synthesizing Title VII and Title IX Protections for Student-Employees”, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 134, Issue 3 (Jan 2025).
El Pais, “On International Women’s Day, Spain Plans Strikes and more than 500 Protests,” El Pais , Madrid; Barcelona, Spain, March 8, 2019.
Gloria Steinem, “ Gloria Steinem on Equal Rights for Women,” The American Yawp Reader, 1970.
Hillary Clinton, “”Secretary Clinton’s 1995 United Nations Speech,” September 5, 1995, Clinton Foundation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7evFMipVZE .
Jo Freeman, “Social Revolution and the Equal Rights Amendment.” Sociological Forum 3, no. 1 (1988), http://www.jstor.org/stable/684629 .
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “The Need for the Equal Rights Amendment.” American Bar Association Journal, Vol . 59, Issue 9 (1973), http://www.jstor.org/stable/25726416 .
Contact Information: lindehv0@sewanee.edu
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