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Makers: Women in Space traces the history of women pioneers in the U.S. space program.
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Joan Rivers describes her comedic style.
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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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For the women of the 1950s the societal norm was to get married before college was over
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In 1967 Kathrine Switzer ran in the Boston Marathon.
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Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique in 1963, an expose on the happy homemaker myth.
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Gloria Steinem founded Ms. Magazine in 1972
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Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in the 1973 Battle of the Sexes match.
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Dr. Love on breaking surgery's glass ceiling and her approach to breast cancer
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Most middle class women of the 1950s became homemakers. Many women felt dissatisfied.
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Women held a sit-in at the offices of Ladies Home Journal
