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Makers: Women Who Make America  Part Three: Charting a New Course

A focused look at the workplace, where women crashed through the glass ceiling. Details

 

Program: Makers: Women Who Make America

Episode: Part Three: Charting a New Course

As the Movement achieved long-sought goals, a new generation of women were re-evaluating some of its most basic assumptions, especially the balance between work and family. By the 2000s, the movement was again under attack from conservatives seeking to rollback abortion and contraception laws, and by younger women fleeing the very word “feminism.”

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Duration: (55:42)
Premiere Date: 02/26/2013
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: NR
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MAKERS is sponsored by Simple, a new line of facial skincare products. Foundation funding is provided by The Charles H. Revson Foundation, NoVo Foundation, Ford Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Rice Family Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation and others.

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Part One: Awakening
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Part Three: Charting a New Course
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Part Two: Changing the World
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