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This is later with Lee Matthews the
Lee Matthews Podcast more what you hear weekday

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afternoons on the Drive. So is
that what you talk about in this podcast

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mainly women and women in the history
of the United States. We actually talk

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about women from around the world and
throughout history, and the idea is,

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in five ish minutes every day,
we tell the story of a woman who

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you may not know about but should. So these are bite sized episodes that

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are fun and engaging, that tell
stories of people who you will likely be

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interested in. Give me an example. I mean, it's not just Madame

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Curie or eleanor Roosevelt. It's not
so we for example, this past month

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of March, we highlighted movers and
shakers, so we talked about women who

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were strong women, wrestlers, adventurers, explorers, people who were experts in

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flying hot air balloons at a time
where there was sort of balloon mania in

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France. We talked about this coming
month it's going to be mischief makers,

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and we're talking about spies and tricksters, people who did all sorts of different

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things. It's hard for me to
pull out one example because we've covered so

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many women. But the idea is
that we want to share individual stories that

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show the breadth of experience and what's
possible for women, both what happened in

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the past and also to give ideas
of different paths people can take in the

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future. Jenny Kaplan, co founder
and chief executive officer of Wonder Media Network.

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While Manica is the daily podcast she
produces featuring bite sized stories of incredible

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women throughout history. And did many
of these women thrive in the background of

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what was then kind of a man's
world? Definitely, and it's amazing to

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see how much was accomplished by these
women under those circumstances and how much we

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don't really understand from our regular history
classes. Perhaps was what women were responsible

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for, but it may have been
a man's world. But based on these

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stories that we've been telling, it
seems like women certainly had a greater impact

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on history than we generally give credit
for. So many times as well,

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sex enters into the conversation. It
does. Yeah, I agree with you,

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and I guess my question is does
it were many of these women aware

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of that tool in their chest or
was it more of an annoyance? You

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know, it's a good question.
We've covered so many women that I think

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it really depends on the person we're
talking about. I do think that there

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are lots of examples where based on
the time and the the roles that were

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the jobs that were available to women
at any given period, there were a

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lot of people who we've highlighted who
used their station or their ability to marry

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well, or use their ability to
attract different people to their advantage in terms

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of getting whatever they wanted to get
accomplished accomplished. So there definitely it is

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important to note that at different points
of time, women were not allowed in

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lots of different different positions, and
so they used what they could to get

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done what they wanted to get done. Was there a turning point? And

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we're talking by the way to Jenny
Kaplan, a co founder and chief executive

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officer of Wonder Media Network, produces
Willmanica, a daily podcast featuring stories of

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incredible women throughout history. She's also
an award winning journalist at Bloomberg. But

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was there a turning point in American
history in particular where things started to become

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easier or or was it better for
women in society altogether? It's hard to

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pick one specific turning point. I
think it has certainly gotten better over time,

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although I think women are still today
fighting for their communities and fighting for

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different different needs that are often not
covered in media, are unmet. But

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I think there's been progress over time
and different I think that's really not just

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been It's been hard bought that progress, and so I think, you know,

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it's probably easiest. The contrast is
easiest seen if you look back to

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the early days of the United States
and compare that to where we are now.

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But it's sort of impossible to pick
one particular turning point for so many

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different women. I was thinking along
the lines of the right to vote.

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I mean, it seems like that's
when when women were finally being listened to.

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It certainly is, and that wasn't
just a discreet moment in itself.

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You know that the right to vote
was one particularly for white women, and

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then that fight, that battle continued
on for women of color for much longer.

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So it's been you know, every
time there's a fight. I think

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that every time there's a victory,
I think that that leads to another another

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movement towards for the rights, for
their progress. And we talk a lot

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about that on the show and we
also want to highlight women who weren't just

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fighting for that, women who are
complicated and interesting and you know, may

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have been good, may have been
sort of evil or certainly complicated in the

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mixture of the two. So we
want to highlight lots of different stories that

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aren't just inspirational, aren't just about
the march of progress, although we certainly

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do feature those kinds of stories,
but also that show lots of different kinds

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of people, like you know,
in April, we're talking all about mischief

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makers. So there's there's a lot
to be covered, and it's certainly it

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makes for an interesting show to produce
every day. And that interesting show is

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Wamanica, the podcast featuring bite sized
stories of incredible women throughout history, produced

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with Jenny Kaplan, who is the
founder and chief executive officer of Wonder Media

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Network. And we thank you for
bringing these stories to us and for joining

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us today. Thank you so much. Thanks for listening to Later with Lee

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Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast,
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