KUT is celebrating Women’s History Month by highlighting the stories of important women in Texas history, like Rep. Barbara Jordan. Listen at 90.5 FM throughout the month of March and at houstonpubmedia:
This program is the story of women in the ultimate Man’s World — the labs and Shuttle crew cabins of NASA. Told in the first person, these stories explore the experiences of NASA’s first woman engineers and scientists and its first astronauts. It also tells the fascinating story of a group of women pilots who, in the early 1960s, were led to believe that they would be America’s first women astronauts and were given the exact same physical tests are the Mercury astronauts.
This hour-long special features remarkable stories of women’s history, told by the women who were there. Selected from the BBC’s Witness History program, we hear moving, inspiring, and even outrageous stories about a few of the most important women in living memory.This one-hour special is about how women overcome economic barriers to empower themselves and their communities. hosted by Reena Ninan.