Women's Studies: Streaming Video

In this final program, Dr. Amanda Foreman looks at the role of women in revolutions that transformed the modern world. She discovers, through women like campaigner and writer Olympe De Gouges, that the French Revolution's promise of equality would be limited to men In the end, revolutionary change for women would come from within the private sphere - in America, with activists like Margaret Sanger, who developed the pill which would finally give women control over when to have children.

The first installment in Ken Burns’s remarkable documentary on the women’s suffrage movement, this program depicts the early years of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. With the help of rarely seen archival materials and voice-over portrayals by well-known actors, viewers learn how the ideas of both women came to maturity and how they became allies in the struggle for women’s rights.

Written & directed by Joe Jenkins, this documentary explores the ethical, legal and religious dimensions of the abortion debate. The video discusses the legal and ethical attitudes to abortion through the ages, highlighting key ideas such as Animation, Ensoulment, Quickening and The Born Alive rule.

RealChange director Sadhana Smiles talks about how gender equality at the highest levels benefits companies, how they can achieve this balance, and how women can push for higher positions.

In this program, successful businesswoman Hilary Devey investigates the range of factors that are thought to be holding women back. Devey looks at unconscious bias in recruitment and promotions, finds out why women tend to be bad at requesting pay raises, and asks stay-at-home mothers whether they are content to step off the career ladder for good.