The NYPR Archives Celebrates Women's History Month

Another milestone in radio history.

Accomplished contralto performs on WNYC in the late 1940s.

Balanced Government, for St. Denis, is a dual presidency held by both a man and a woman, "at present, the men govern this world including America as though women didn't exist."

Audrey Wood doesn't just represent, she advocates.

"All I can do is tell you how it looked to me."

Jail Overcrowding and Underfunding…in 1959

When most women in Radio were doing home-ec shows, she was WNYC's News and Special Events Director.

"Let us sink atom bombs along with the other weapons in the deepest part of the ocean and live without weapons as good neighbors."

The Negro Melody Singers and Juanita Hall Choir present rousing programs of spirituals under the direction of this soon to be famous singer and actress.

Fleur and Evita; Two Strong Women Go Head-to-Head

Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks on "the significance of the educated woman in the nation's future."

Kay Boyle offers her interpretation of post-war Germany at this March 14, 1960 Books and Authors Luncheon.

Gertrude Foster Brown, the head of the New York State Women's Suffrage Association makes the case for women voting on a Pathe' disc in 1915.

The hardest working dancer in Ballet, Dame Alicia Markova sits down with Walter Terry to discuss her transition from the spotlight to the director of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.

Just a few months before Janis Ian became a household name at the age of 16, she performed five of her most controversial songs live in our studios.