Yvette Lee Bowser on balancing serious subject matter within the context of a comedy on A Different World -- including the episode "If I Should Die Before I Wake"
03:31
Yvette Lee Bowser on her experience of working on Hangin' with Mr. Cooper and not feeling valued
03:22
Yvette Lee Bowser on taking two weeks off from Hangin' with Mr. Cooper to write the pilot for Living Single and on several white male writers getting promoted during her absence; on forming her production company, SisterLee Productions
02:19
Yvette Lee Bowser on pitching her idea for Living Single, pushing back on network notes in order to keep "Maxine Shaw", and finalizing the pilot script for the show
03:37
Yvette Lee Bowser on the "Maxine Shaw Effect" from Living Single
01:47
Yvette Lee Bowser on being the first Black woman to create, run, and produce her own primetime series in the U.S. -- with Living Single
01:03
Yvette Lee Bowser on writing a couple episodes of Dear White People, including co-writing "Volume 2: Chapter IX", in which "Sam" returns home after her father's death; on the female friendships on Dear White People
03:20
Yvette Lee Bowser on the legacy of Dear White People
00:24
Margaret Cho on the groundbreaking aspects of All-American Girl -- the first representation of a Korean American family on U.S. primetime television
03:10
Margaret Cho on network notes she got on All-American Girl -- that she was too fat
04:51
Margaret Cho on Drop Dead Diva tackling body issues head on
00:50
Margaret Cho on advice for young women entering the industry
00:31
Connie Chung on becoming a news writer and an on-air reporter
02:59
Connie Chung on getting hired at CBS News
01:12
Connie Chung on being co-anchor of CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and women anchoring the news
02:13
Connie Chung on the double standard with on-camera older women and men
01:25
Connie Chung and Maury Povich on Chung as a trailblazer
01:04
Barbara Corday on pitching Cagney & Lacey in 1974 and on being involved in the women's movement at the time
05:11
Barbara Corday on the premise of Cagney & Lacey and on dealing with women's issues on the show
04:43
Barbara Corday on the challenges of being a female executive in television
03:00
Barbara Corday on how the status of women in television has changed since she started
04:45
Katie Couric on wanting a solo female anchor to be an accepted norm on television
00:26
Katie Couric on feeling like most of the women at ABC News were in subservient positions
01:37
Katie Couric on what being a female journalist means to her
02:39
Katie Couric on becoming the first solo female news anchor
01:22
Katie Couric on why a solo female news anchor may not work for some people
01:43
Ane Crabtree on her research for the costumes of The Handmaid's Tale, how she was impacted by the subject matter of the show, and design ideas for the Handmaids, Econopeople, Guardians, Aunts, and Commanders
12:50
Ane Crabtree on how Gilead in The Handmaid's Tale is similar to present day, and how costumes similar to those she designed began to be worn at political protests
21:12
Judith Crist on Al Morgan of Today being a big supporter of women
01:19
Judith Crist on why she left Today and feeling the decision to let her go was sexist
01:33
Judith Crist on getting to know women in television
03:27
Judith Crist on not encountering sexism in the television industry
12:24
Ann Curry on being hired as a reporter at KTVL in Medford, Oregon, a station that had never before had a female reporter, and on the sexism she faced on the job
04:27
Ann Curry on aspiring to be a news anchor like Walter Cronkite early in her career, and how she navigated her ambitions with few available role models in broadcast journalism who were women or people of color
02:45
Ann Curry on inappropriate behavior she witnessed at NBC News, and on the then-current battle to prevent harassment of women in the workplace
05:18
Ann Curry on how she has seen opportunities for women and people of color change in journalism over the course of her career
02:14
Rebecca Eaton on finding out she was pregnant on the same day she was offered the job of executive producer of Masterpiece Theatre
04:21
Rebecca Eaton on the roles women had at PBS in the early 1970s, and how that has changed over time
01:54
Rebecca Eaton on the challenges of balancing her professional life and personal life as a female producer
03:44
Jeannie Epper on her few close fellow stuntwomen and the passing of her brothers and sisters
02:16
Jeannie Epper on being one of the founding members of the Stuntwoman's Association of Motion Pictures
03:36
Jeannie Epper on the challenges that stuntwomen face that stuntmen don't
04:04
Jeannie Epper on the lack of women stunt coordinators
02:54
Barbara Feldon on her Get Smart character, "99"
05:45
Barbara Feldon on hosting The '80s Woman which focused on women's issues
03:45
Barbara Feldon on being grateful for her time on Get Smart and how the industry is not generous to women; on how comedy is more fun to do than drama
02:28
Barbara Feldon on working without shoes on Get Smart and trying to look shorter than she was
00:57
Dorothy Fontana on the challenges of being a woman writer and using D.C. Fontana on her scripts so that she would be given a chance
03:01
Dorothy Fontana on "Uhura" and "Number One"- one of the first major female black characters, on Star Trek
01:29
Dorothy Fontana on the Star Trek episode "Friday's Child", over which she argued with Gene Rodenberry about the portrayal of women; she had a different ending
01:55
Dorothy Fontana on writing for The Streets of San Francisco
03:13
Sandra Gimpel on how she became a stunt coordinator in the 1970s and the fact that women were mostly not stunt coordinators at the time, and on becoming second unit director, as well as stunt coordinator on Mrs. Columbo
05:52
Sandra Gimpel on how the equipment used by stunt performers has changed over time, especially for women, who oftentimes in the past could not wear padding because it was so bulky and too visible under costumes
02:47
Winifred Hervey on getting accepted to the Warner Bros. Writing Workshop
02:12
Winifred Hervey on being the only female writer on The Cosby Show
01:52
Winifred Hervey on the writers' room of The Golden Girls
02:09
Winifred Hervey on her biggest challenge in the business - being female and a minority
02:07
Winifred Hervey on opportunities for women and minorities in writing
00:40
Julie Ann Johnson on the challenges of being a female stunt person in the 1960s, and on founding the Stuntwoman's Association
06:43
Julie Ann Johnson on the changes she's trying to make in the stunt industry to improve safety, and also for minorities and women
11:12
Julie Ann Johnson on the then-current state of the stunt industry for stunt women and safety standards
03:48
Julie Ann Johnson on the course of action stunt women have if they feel discriminated against or harassed, and what she would like to see happen
05:29
Irma Kalish on her status as a woman writer in the early days of television and the pressure to be "twice as good as a man" and how Rocky supported her career
02:24
Irma Kalish on the dearth of women in writer's rooms in any television show when they first began working in TV and how they helped change the dynamic
03:05
Irma Kalish on how writing the All in the Family episode dealing with cancer helped her friend, and impacted her feeling about her profession
02:11
Irma Kalish on the dearth of women in writer's rooms in any television show when they first began working in TV and how they helped change the dynamic
03:06
Irma Kalish on her status as a woman writer in the early days of television and the pressure to be "twice as good as a man" and how Rocky supported her career
02:24
Irma Kalish on how writing the All in the Family episode dealing with cancer helped her friend, and impacted her feeling about her profession
02:11
Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman on Sisters being one of the only television dramas to explore the lives of women at its center
01:29
Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman on the success of Sisters among female viewers, despite the fact that executives did not normally pay attention to that demographic
01:37
Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman on their push to have as many female directors and writers on Sisters as they could
01:31
Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman on Sisters being one of the only television dramas to explore the lives of women at its center
01:29
Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman on the success of Sisters among female viewers, despite the fact that executives did not normally pay attention to that demographic
01:37
Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman on their push to have as many female directors and writers on Sisters as they could
01:31
Millie Moore on being one of the sole women in the A.C.E. when she joined
03:03
Millie Moore on women being more welcomed into the A.C.E. as editors, not just librarians, after the studio system began to crumble
00:45
Millie Moore on how women editors have progressed through the years
01:50
Anne Nelson on becoming the first female executive at CBS, and the difficulties she encountered getting there
00:46
Anne Nelson on her style of negotiation, and on the challenges of being a female in business affairs in her era
07:23
Anne Nelson on being a female television executive
01:15
Lyn Paolo on designing costumes on The West Wing for "C.J. Cregg," played by Allison Janney, and on thinking about how to dress a female member of a (fictional) presidential administration
02:24
Lyn Paolo on dressing Stockard Channing as "First Lady Abbey Bartlett" on The West Wing episode "The State Dinner," on the controversy the dress invited, and on why she felt it was unwarranted to shame a woman's body that way
01:22
Madelyn Pugh Davis on being one of the first female writers hired at CBS radio
01:18
Madelyn Pugh Davis on working on the "social page" as opposed to news in radio
02:31
Madelyn Pugh Davis (with Bob Carroll, Jr.) on the early treatment of female radio and television writers and producers
01:57
Bob Carroll, Jr. & Madelyn Pugh Davis on the treatment of female producers
00:43
Madelyn Pugh Davis (with Bob Carroll, Jr.) on the early treatment of female radio and television writers and producers
01:57
Bob Carroll, Jr. & Madelyn Pugh Davis on the treatment of female producers
00:43
Barney Rosenzweig on giving Aaron Spelling criticisms of Charlie's Angels and wanting to incorporate the themes of the Women's Movement into the show
04:53
Barney Rosenzweig on the idea for Cagney & Lacey
01:42
Barney Rosenzweig on what Cagney & Lacey was about at its core
03:41
Barney Rosenzweig on the legacy of Cagney & Lacey and what it did for the portrayal of women on television
01:55
Marlene Sanders on the number of women in television when she started
00:57
Marlene Sanders on other female journalists when she came along
02:50
Marlene Sanders on being the first woman to anchor an evening news broadcast (for one night) and later for three months; on more women entering the business
04:29
Marlene Sanders on her role in the women's movement
10:08
Marlene Sanders on publishing the book "Waiting for Primetime" and her conclusions about women in broadcasting
02:31
Marlene Sanders on advice for women in broadcast journalism
01:33
Jay Sandrich on the impact the women's movement came to have on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
01:30
Jay Sandrich on a scene in Soap which deals with sexual tension, written from a woman's perspective
01:15
Jay Sandrich on how Susan Harris brought a woman's perspective to the writing on Soap
01:43
Jay Sandrich on what good comedy can do for us socially
01:37
Nina Shaw on Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin bringing more Black characters to television and on the number of women who worked for Tandem
01:01
Nina Shaw on negotiating talent deals in the 1970s and '80s and how race and gender affected salaries
01:03
Nina Shaw on joining Dern, Mason, Swerdlow & Floum and on many firms not hiring women at that time
01:52
NIna Shaw on female directors often "having to get the one shot to screw up"
02:47
Treva Silverman on the challenges of being the only female on the writing staff of The Dean Martin Show
01:53
Treva Silverman on being the only female writer to work on The Monkees
01:21
Treva Silverman on writing The Mary Tyler Moore Show's "Rhoda Morgenstern," played by Valerie Harper, and on the female characters of the show
03:53
Treva Silverman on the male writing staff of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and helping them write for female characters
03:36
Treva Silverman on how the role of women has changed since she started in television
00:52
Treva Silverman on being the first female writer to win an Emmy Award
01:23
Lesley Stahl on the jobs women had at NBC News when she started in 1967
00:24
Lesley Stahl on getting hired at CBS' Washington D.C. news bureau, and how affirmative action played a part in her hiring
01:21
Lesley Stahl on being told to re-do an on-camera piece without smiling (to exude more authority) while a correspondent for CBS in Washington in the 1970s
00:51
Lesley Stahl on encountering sexism within news crews when she was a rookie reporter for CBS in Washington D.C. in the 1970s
01:47
Lesley Stahl on consciously trying to convey authority as a reporter
01:07
Lesley Stahl on women in broadcast journalism during her day
01:51
Barbara Walters on being able to "write for men" on the Today show
01:20
Barbara Walters on being denied the opportunity to travel overseas for reporting in her early career
04:34
Barbara Walters on being the first female network news anchor (she was co-anchor from 1976-1978 on ABC Evening News)
00:46
Barbara Walters on the rise of women in television and her advice to women on getting ahead
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