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The third afternoon speaker at the symposium "The Uncertain Quest - The Dilemmas of Sex Education," produced by and held at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco and simulcast on KPFA, is Bruce Ogilvie (1920-2003), Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, San Jose State College. He discusses the damage done by street sex education.

How do the jobs we do affect our unborn generations? What are genetic toxins? How can we protect our children? Why is this not just a women's issue? How can this issue be used to discriminate against women in the workplace? This program explores all of these topics, plus the American Cyanamid Plant in Willow Island, West Virginia, and the company policy which banned fertile women from working with lead, which led to five women having themselves sterilized in order to keep their jobs.

Voices heard on this program are workers at Occidental Chemical Company; Don Horton, a doctor who studied men at Occidental Chemical who had become sterile due to working with DBCP, an insecticide; Andrea Hricko, an OSHA consultant and producer of a film about working women; Anthony Robbins, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH); Tony Mazzocchi, director of Health and Safety for the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union; Dr. Molly Coye, a medical investigative officer for NIOSH; Dick Cavalli, toxicologist for Standard Oil of California; Stan Dryden, manager of industrial hygiene services for Standard Oil of California; Steve Swanson, health and safety coordinator for the American Petroleum Institute; Karen Mew, a lab worker at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, a nuclear weapons and energy research facility operated by the University of California; Carol Oppenheimer, attorney at the Center For Law and Social Policy in Washington, D. C.

Produced by Public Media Center under a grant from the U. S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Produced by Michael Singsen and Peggy Stein. Announcer is Chris Welch.

Reading of letters written by a woman homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) in Wyoming around 1910. Part 3 of 3. These three episodes of Stewart's letters were part of a continuing series on KPFA based on women’s diaries and letters.
Part three: This portion begins in December 1913. Stewart describes Christmas with her neighbors; how they helped two Mormon women and their children who were all in need; and other adventures Stewart has with her friend and neighbor, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy. The materials used in this program come from "Letters of a woman homesteader" by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Elinore Stewart's letters were copyrighted by herself and by Atlantic Monthly in 1913. The letters are read by Luce Morgan; produced and narrated by Brett Vuolo; the music is provided by Larry Packer; technical production by Peter Zanger.

Previously cataloged as BC0721C.

Report on the Bella Abzug-William Ryan contest for the 20th Congressional district in New York. Includes specifically opinions on the race from women, interviewed on the street. Abzug portion recorded from her campaign event "Women Power for Bella Day," outside her campaign headquarters in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.