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Revolutionary Research: Podcast Outline |
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Revolutionary Research: Podcast Outline
- Setting the Scene (1 min)
- WSS student describes her experience studying the sciences, talks about everyday life and difficulties she encounters.
- Transition: how did the WSS come to be?
- Intro (name, title, other logistics)
- Context—Women in Science (2 min)
- Women in science at SDSU before 1977—reading names, majors, and years from yearbooks to give an idea.
- Discuss general women in science trends (study and employment) and how those trends apply to SDSU (if available).
- Augment this bit with stock sciency noises.
- Transition: why this period brought about changes in women’s employment
- Context—Women’s Studies (2 min)
- The Women’s Liberation Movement and the founding of the Women’s Studies department at SDSU. Background audio from protest footage.
- Marilyn Boxer coming to SDSU. Archival audio of Boxer (if available), interview audio (if available), or readings from Boxer’s book.
- Transition: the NSF women in science initiative (“and SDSU was one of the first institutions to host a workshop”)
- Describing the Workshop (3 min)
- Readings from the workshop manual, giving a sense of how the event went.
- Interview audio from Boxer or other workshop participants, if available.
- Contextualizing the Workshop (3 min)
- Audio from Thelma Chavez discussing women in STEM initiatives over the last ~15 years.
- How the workshop format (panel of professionals, positive representation) has gone mostly unchanged.
- Contemporary Trends (2 min)
- Women in STEM gap persists despite initiatives.
- More testimonials from WSS students—specifically discussing feminism and political issues.
- Conclusion: how radical should we be? (1 min)
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