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Pink Collar Workers: Ela Bhatt
Season 6 Episode 234
Ela Bhatt (1933-2022) was an activist and organizer who founded the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India (SEWA), which serves primarily low-income women across India. She went on to become an i…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Pink Collar Workers: Sue Ko Lee
Season 6 Episode 233
Sue Ko Lee (1910-1996) was a labor organizer who participated in one of the longest strikes in the history of San Francisco’s Chinatown. She and other garment workers joined forces with a white-led u…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Pink Collar Workers: Carrie Crawford Smith
Season 6 Episode 232
Carrie Crawford Smith (1877-1954) placed hundreds of fellow Black women in jobs in and around Chicago through her employment agency. In an era when Black women faced intense discrimination and negati…
Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago
Pink Collar Workers: Hiratsuka Raichō
Season 6 Episode 231
Hiratsuka Raichō (1886-1971) was a Japanese feminist and social reformer, who founded a literary magazine by and for women. After becoming a mother, she became an advocate for working women in Japan,…
Published on 1 month ago
Pink Collar Workers: Clara Zetkin
Season 6 Episode 230
Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was a prominent German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights. She played a pivotal role in the early socialist and communist movements, particularly in …
Published on 1 month ago
Pink Collar Workers: Irene Fernandez
Season 6 Episode 229
Irene Fernandez (1946-2014) was a Malaysian human rights activist. She co-founded Tenaganita, a non-governmental organization that promotes the rights of migrant workers. When she raised the alarm ab…
Published on 1 month ago
Pink Collar Workers: Laudelina de Campos Melo
Season 6 Episode 228
Laudelina de Campos Melo (1904-1991) was a labor organizer in Brazil. She fought for the dignity of Black domestic workers during a time when they were seen as second-class citizens and afforded litt…
Published on 1 month ago
Pink Collar Workers: Madame Nwanyeruwa
Season 6 Episode 225
Madame Nwanyeruwa (c. 1920s) organized the Aba Women’s War, a revolt staged by Nigerian women against colonial taxation. Her actions helped ignite a movement that eventually led to the fight for inde…
Published on 1 month ago
Pink Collar Workers: Tapputi
Season 6 Episode 224
Tapputi is widely regarded as one of the first known chemists, and her name appears in a Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet dating to approximately 1200 BCE. She is believed to have worked in the Babyloni…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Pink Collar Workers: Zephyr Wright
Season 6 Episode 223
Zephyr Wright (1915-1988) served as President Lyndon B. Johnson’s personal chef for nearly three decades. While her southern cooking filled stomachs and won hearts, her experiences as a Black woman i…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago