Description:
NOW calls for women to run for office to hasten achieving parity in the legislature.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
08/26/1987
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Description:
Overview of industrial home workers, mostly women.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
02/09/1987
Description:
WOMEN REPS DISCUSS SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN HOUSE, KEVERIAN KNOWS NAUGHT. WOMEN'S CAUCUS - LUCILE HICKS, BARBARA GRAY, SUSAN SCHUR, SUSAN TUCKER, MARY JANE GIBSON, FRANCES ALEXANDER.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
03/04/1987
Description:
Local Palestinian women's organization protests Israeli heavy-handedness toward inhabitants of occupied territories. West Bank, Gaza Strip.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
12/22/1987
Description:
NOW president Molly Yard's goals are ERA passage & getting more women to run for office. Says women will get fed up with unresponsive Democratic party.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
10/13/1987
Description:
CRITICAL NURSE SHORTAGE BECAUSE PROFESSION LESS APPEALING TO WOMEN
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
04/14/1987
Description:
Nancy Reagan's breast cancer serves as reminder for women to have mammography for early detection of tumor.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
10/16/1987
Description:
FEMALE BRITISH AFGHANI JOURNALIST DRESSES AS BOY TO TRAVEL WITH MUJAHEDIN & REPORT ON REBELLION IN AFGHANISTAN.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
05/15/1987
Description:
Demand for day care far exceeds supply. Demonstrators want large employers to take more responsibility in providing child care to alleviate crisis for women in workforce. Rep. Saundra Graham. b-roll of children in day care center.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
10/14/1987
Description:
Fritz Wetherbee profiles Katie Portis (President of Women, Inc.). Wetherbee reports that Women, Inc. is a service organization in Dorchester that provides housing, treatment, and other services for poor and drug dependent women. Wetherbee notes that one of the goals of Women, Inc. is to provide support for single mothers who want to keep their children. Wetherbee interviews Portis. Portis talks about the organization and her reasons for starting it. Wetherbee profiles Ethel, a resident at the Women's Inc. house. In an interview, Ethel talks about the help she has received from the organization. Wetherbee interviews Diana Christmas (residential counselor) and Linda Galloway (resident at the Women, Inc. house) about the organization. Wetherbee's report is accompanied by footage of the interior and exterior of the Women, Inc. house.
1:00:01: Visual: Footage of Katie Portis (President of Women, Inc.) saying that some people take drugs to help them cope with poverty, despair, and domestic abuse. Fritz Wetherbee reports that Portis had become frustrated with the desperate conditions under which some people are forced to live. Wetherbee notes that Portis started a revolution with one kind act. V: Footage of Portis talking about how she once offered to take care of a woman's baby while the woman went down the street to sign up for a methadone program. Shot of the exterior of the Women Inc. house in Dorchester. Wetherbee reports that Portis started Women's Incorporated in Dorchester; that Women's Inc. has provided support and stability to over 5,000 women; that many of those women have stopped using drugs and are living with their children. V: Shot of an Ethel P. (resident at the Women's Inc. house) with an infant. Ethel P. walks through a hallway and into a bedroom of the Women's Inc. house. Footage of Ethel P. saying that she had no direction when she was living on the street; that she had been to jail three times. Ethel P. says that Women's Inc. has given her a place to focus on herself and to kick her addiction. Shot of Ethel P. rocking her baby. Wetherbee reports that most of the women living at the Women's Inc. house have low self-esteem; that Women's Inc. tries to instill the women with a sense of pride. V: Footage of Diana Christmas (Residential counselor) that the residents have one-to-one and group counseling sessions. Shot of the exterior of the Women's Inc. house. Wetherbee notes that Portis is frustrated that Women's Inc. cannot help every woman who becomes a resident there. V: Footage of Portis saying that the goal of Women's Inc. is to encourage every woman to keep her child; that sometimes a woman is not ready to raise a child. Wetherbee says that Women's Inc. has more success than failure. V: Footage of Linda Galloway (resident at the Women's Inc. house) talking about the help and support she received from Women's Inc.
1:00:01: Visual: Footage of Katie Portis (President of Women, Inc.) saying that some people take drugs to help them cope with poverty, despair, and domestic abuse. Fritz Wetherbee reports that Portis had become frustrated with the desperate conditions under which some people are forced to live. Wetherbee notes that Portis started a revolution with one kind act. V: Footage of Portis talking about how she once offered to take care of a woman's baby while the woman went down the street to sign up for a methadone program. Shot of the exterior of the Women Inc. house in Dorchester. Wetherbee reports that Portis started Women's Incorporated in Dorchester; that Women's Inc. has provided support and stability to over 5,000 women; that many of those women have stopped using drugs and are living with their children. V: Shot of an Ethel P. (resident at the Women's Inc. house) with an infant. Ethel P. walks through a hallway and into a bedroom of the Women's Inc. house. Footage of Ethel P. saying that she had no direction when she was living on the street; that she had been to jail three times. Ethel P. says that Women's Inc. has given her a place to focus on herself and to kick her addiction. Shot of Ethel P. rocking her baby. Wetherbee reports that most of the women living at the Women's Inc. house have low self-esteem; that Women's Inc. tries to instill the women with a sense of pride. V: Footage of Diana Christmas (Residential counselor) that the residents have one-to-one and group counseling sessions. Shot of the exterior of the Women's Inc. house. Wetherbee notes that Portis is frustrated that Women's Inc. cannot help every woman who becomes a resident there. V: Footage of Portis saying that the goal of Women's Inc. is to encourage every woman to keep her child; that sometimes a woman is not ready to raise a child. Wetherbee says that Women's Inc. has more success than failure. V: Footage of Linda Galloway (resident at the Women's Inc. house) talking about the help and support she received from Women's Inc.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
11/24/1987
