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Equal Rights and Women, Then and Now

  • Powell's 1005 West Burnside Street Portland, OR, 97209 United States (map)

Locker Room Talk chronicles what it took for Melissa Ludtke to go up against Major League Baseball in her groundbreaking court case for equal rights. In a talk moderated by Portland author Elizabeth Mehren (“I Lived to Tell the World”), Melissa and Elizabeth, both national journalists, talk about what it was like for women to break through gender barriers in the 1970s and why the battles fought in that era are relevant to what’s happening today.