Podcast
Happy Family
Hosted by Roy Schreiber · EN
In the 1970s a group of women who worked for a major corporation sued for equal pay and equal opportunity. It took them nearly ten years, but they won.
7episodes
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Happy Family Episode 7
Feb 1, 201900:08:18Tap to summarizeTwenty-Five years after the suit against H.F.Inc. Erma looks back. Was it worth it?
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Feb 1, 201900:08:21Tap to summarizeWald and Erma want to try a new way to win the suit against H.F. Inc. Ella Mae reluctantly goes along, but Josie is very unhappy.
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Feb 1, 201900:08:04Tap to summarizeThe women suing H.F. Inc. get nothing but bad news.
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Jan 23, 201900:06:32Tap to summarizeOn behalf of H.F. Inc. Inman makes Erma an offer. It looks like the judge in the women's suit is on their side.
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Jan 9, 201900:09:45Tap to summarizeErma convinces Josie and Ella Mae to help sue H.F. Inc. for equal pay and equal opportunity. Erma and Wald face a hostile reporters.
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Jan 2, 201900:09:38Tap to summarizeAfter getting laid off from H.F. Inc., Erma talks to two other women, Josie and Ella Mae about what to do now. Erma then searches for help in getting a job back at H.F. Inc. She finally finds Tom Wald, a roving civil rights lawyer, who agrees to help. He tells Erma that her best chance is to have all the other women who got laid off sue the company as well.
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Dec 12, 201800:08:03Tap to summarizeDuring the 1970s, a group of women workers at a major corporation sued for equal pay and equal opportunity. Twenty-five years later a freelance writer wants to find how how they did it.
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