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Oct 2016
19m 53s

Episode 48: Men: 44, Women: 0

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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A century after women won the vote in the US, we still see very few of them in leadership roles. Researchers say women are trapped in a catch-22 known as "the double bind." Note: an early version of this episode incorrectly stated that Carol Moseley Braun was the first African-American U.S. Senator. She was in fact the first female African-American Senator. 
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