Comments on: Why More Women Should Start Podcasting

By: Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:49:54 +0000

Thanks Harold, Cindy, and Obi for your kind and supportive comments. Yes, brief excerpts are always OK with me for both my audio shows and my articles.

As I mentioned in this show, I do want women and men to be conversing more in this medium. Believe me, I’ve got nothing against the male perspective or the male approach to conversation. We do need to be listening to each other more. And in order for that to happen on a truly constructive scale, more women’s voices need to be available in this emerging medium. It’s time to set a new tone.

- Amy Gahran

By: Dusting My Brain

Dusting My Brain — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:24:15 +0000

Women and Podcasting
How many times have you read an article that poses the question, “where are the women?” Though podcasting is still in its infancy, the number of podcasters, podcasts, groups, reviewers, press, etc. has grown exponentially since its introduction some…

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:19:09 +0000

Thanks for the motivational explanation and podcasts to subscribe to. Below are some audios, not podcasts, by and for women. These might provide clips or subjects for blogs and podcasts. Good listening when you’re tired of male voices!

Audios of Women

HerStory
at WomeninScience.org
Women’s
Studies at historicalvoices.org
Voice
over narration of Gender Tutorials at Hunter College

The Gender Tutorials describe accumulating effects of gender
differences on academic and business careers. Suggests remedies
llike having a personal “board of advisors” and intervention to balance
lists of speakers (use Amy’s list).

By: Obi

Obi — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 03:15:30 +0000

Amy, excellent podcast on an interesting subject. If it’s okay with you I’d love to use parts of your podcast in a future podcast of my own to discuss the subject of creating a more diverse podcasting universe.

I think that encouraging this conversation, even from my male point of view, will only be a good thing.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:33:39 +0000

Excellent podcast Amy. I’ll be mentioning it as a “must listen” on my blog.

By: Harold J. Johnson

Harold J. Johnson — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:10:21 +0000

I’m reading your article right now, and I haven’t quite finished it yet, but I’d like to quickly offer a very simple reason I would like more women podcasters. The reason (and I do not jest): I want to hear women’s voices. The physical timbre and tone of their voices - the utterance that springs forth from their physical makeup.

Yes, I enjoy a women’s perspective - my mom raised me on Oprah, Cosmopolitan, Stevie Nicks, and Playboy. She wasn’t (and isn’t) a feminist, though she wouldn’t stand for anyone’s b.s., male or female, and she had the strongest and most vibrant personality of anyone I’ve ever known. I’ve lived with women most of my life, too, growing up and as a grownup.

So it comforts me to hear a woman’s perspective from time to time. Yet the perspective alone is not what satisfies; it’s the sound of the voice I long to hear, in all its feminine variety. That alone should be enough incentive for women to podcast - knowing that there are people out here who desire to hear their voice, no matter what their saying.