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Terkel presents songs that discuss the subject of domestic violence against women. Songs range from ballads in musicals, to jazz torch songs, to popular music at the time.
Shana Alexander discusses her career as a journalist and her time on the program 'Point-Counterpoint' on 60 Minutes. She goes on to discuss how being a woman has informed her professional life, including how there are so few women in professional places of power, issues explored in her book 'Talking Woman', published in 1976.
Jo Freeman, Mary Jean Collins-Robson, and Naomi Weisstein discuss women's rights and the struggle for equal rights and liberation, resistance through art, and the fight for free childcare. Discussion continues with criticism on the male gaze and females as sexual objects.
Jo Freeman, Mary Jean Collins-Robson, and Naomi Weisstein discuss women's rights and the struggle for equal rights and liberation, Title VII, their support for NOW, the National Organization of Women, as well as the upcoming Women's Strike for Equality.