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Women who broke barriers
March 29, 2011; posted Aug. 7, 2011
They came with their stories, their scars, and their well-tested senses of humor.
Tuesday's Forum heard from women who broke barriers in employment. Their stories are below, as only they can tell them. The day was organized to mark Women's History Month. The stories may well motivate a high school term-paper writer, or you, to go out and continue the fight for gender equality that surrounded their careers and lives.
Participants included, from left in picture above:
� Shirley Fulton, retired judge and owner of the Wadsworth House;
� Vicki Hamilton, retired Director of Athletics for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools;
� Fannie Flono, associate editor, The Charlotte Observer;
� Gail Sloan, in 1966 among the first two women hired as sworn officers on the Charlotte Police Department;
� Clara Williams, hired in 1971 as a secretary and within 3 months on the air with her own show, "Right On," at WBTV;
� Sarah Stevenson, co-founder of the Forum and its regular moderator, who helped merge the Charlotte-Mecklenburg black and white PTAs, and in 1980 was the first black woman elected to the CMS Board of Education.
The panel had time for only three questions. The second question
was directed to and answered by Flono. Fulton departed before the
panel got to the third question. Stevenson moderated, and addressed
only one of the questions. Some of the "introductory comments" audio
clips capture Stevenson's introduction of the speaker; some do not.
Shirley Fulton
Introductory comments
Q1 How did male counterparts treat you?
Vicki Hamilton
Introductory comments
Q1 How did male counterparts treat you?
Q3 How do you gauge when discrimination is real, then how you determine the
appropriate response?
Fannie Flono
Introductory comments
Q1 How did male counterparts treat you?
Q2 Explain your role in Young Voices in the Observer
Q3 How do you gauge when discrimination is real, then how you determine the
appropriate response?
Gail Sloan
Introductory comments
Q1 How did male counterparts treat you?
Q3 How do you gauge when discrimination is real, then how you determine the
appropriate response?
Clara Williams
Introductory comments
Q1 How did male counterparts treat you?
Q3 How do you gauge when discrimination is real, then how you determine the
appropriate response?
Sarah Stevenson
Q1 How did male counterparts treat you?
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