Is gender inequity the biggest issue of our time? Around the world, it’s not unusual for young girls from poor families to be kept out of school. In India, the mortality rate for girls under age five is 50 percent higher than it is for boys. Pulitzer Prize–winning author of “Half the Sky” Sheryl WuDunn talked with us earlier this year about education, poverty, maternal mortality, sex trafficking and gender inequality, and what can be done to help.
Then, Steve and Katy listen back to a time in radio’s Golden Age when advertisements were subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) woven into shows, and food writer Sara Dickerman joins us with a lunch recommendation.