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Comedian Jane Lynch discusses her career and being a female comedian.

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Examine how Joan Rivers used comedy to spotlight the inequality between men and women.

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TV pioneers like Marlo Thomas and Diahann Carroll opened the door to other women

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Joan Rivers describes her troubles breaking into the comedy world.

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Chelsea Lately talks about breaking in to comedy

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Astronaut Mae Jemison on reaching her goal of space travel.

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Makers: Women in Space traces the history of women pioneers in the U.S. space program.

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Women discuss the NASA engineering around going to the bathroom

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Geena Davis discusses her career in movies and the role of women in the business.

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Actress Diahann Carrol discusses the American sitcom Julia.

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Zainab Salbi on finding her calling helping women survivors of war.

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In 2007, Nancy Pelosi became the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.