Kathrine Switzer

Season 1

About the Episode

Kathrine Switzer on the prejudices women athletes faced, her historic Boston Marathon run, and the doors it opened for other women athletes. Switzer’s ongoing campaign to help women around the globe empower themselves through the simple act of running made her a 2011 Inductee into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

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Extras

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0:00
Stop ERA

The fight to ratify the ERA

10:39
Dr. Susan Love

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3:03
Ladies Home Journal Sit In

Women held a sit-in at the offices of Ladies Home Journal

2:36
Civil Rights

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2:58
1950 Housewives

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9:14
MAKERS Women in Politics: Government Shutdown

Female leadership in the Senate start the discussion to end the shutdown.

3:09
Angela Salinas, Retired Major General, U.S. Marine Corps

Angela Salinas describes her career in the USMC and path to the rank of Major General.

4:33
MAKERS Women in War: Combat

Makers: Women in War looks at American women’s increasing participation in war and combat

2:16
MAKERS Women in War Valerie Plame

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3:56