Photo credit: Janet Donovan
“I think people choose different paths and as you look back you could say ‘I wish I had done this or that’ but I think that the common theme between all of these women is that they didn’t seek to become famous.” Patricia de Stacy Harrison, CEO of Corporation for Public Broadcasting, told Hollywood on the Potomac at a celebration for MAKERS.
Pat Harrison
“Makers” airs on PBS (Tuesdays at 9 PM) and on MAKERS.com and tells the stories of the modern American women’s movement. Each documentary in this six-part series examines the impact of the women’s movement on six fields once largely closed to women: business, space, Hollywood, comedy, war and politics. In each field, women have pried open, and profoundly reshaped, the central institutions of American life and culture. This night examined Women in Politics and Women in War with an interactive discussion with Sharon Rockefeller, President of WETA-TV.
Sharon Rockefeller and Executive Producer Dyllan McGee
A look into the making of MAKERS:
“Landlords felt that single women couldn’t earn enough to pay for the apartment and if you could earn enough, you must be a hooker.” Gloria Steinem
The Trailer:
