This week on 51%, we speak with Miss New York USA about how beauty pageants can lift up young women. And we’ll hear from Miss Wisconsin Earth about how she’s representing plus-size women on the stage in a time of changing attitudes about pageants. I’m Jackie Orchard and this is 51%.
(more…)
On this week’s 51%, a jazz musician talks about contracting COVID-19, and three generations of women keep an olive farm in production in California....
On this week’s 51%, we speak with professor and author Falguni Sheth about her new book, Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab, on...
On this week’s 51%, we speak with Gayatri Patel of the Women’s Refugee Commission about how the U.S. can better promote gender equality in...