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Physician Anne Sidon, psychiatrist Susan Fisher, and attorney Sandra Nye discuss womens' changing roles in society and its connection with mental health problems and solutions. The group discusses domestic violence, and notes how the normalization of divorce affects the mental health of women and the parental roles between father and mother. Studs plays “She Sits on the Table” - Tom Paxton (1980).
Discussion about the triple revolution
According to Barbara Garson's book, "The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past," companies are trying to make jobs so simple, as a result, kids in jobs are as replaceable as paper plates. Some companies don't want their employees to have to think but rather they need them to push buttons on machinery to get jobs accomplished.
The book, "Which Side Are You On?: Trying to be for Labor When it's Flat on its Back," is Tom Geoghegan's story of working with the labor unions in the 1960's and the 1970's. Goeghegan said the current standard of living is flat or falling which wasn't the case when organized labor unions were present in the 50's and 60's. We're all in trouble, all of us, if labor declines, explained Goeghegan.
Scientist and educator Dr. Barry Commoner discusses his book "The Politics of Energy." Main topics include nuclear energy, solar energy, renewable energy and the future of energy.