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Monday May 10, 2004

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Week of May 10, 2004

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12:06America's Growing Inequality

From race relations to free market economics, renowned British historian Godfrey Hodgson evaluates the discrepancy between America's collective national identity and the way things really are in the U.S., while exploring our nation's political and social shift towards conservatism over the past 25 years.

Guests

Godfrey Hodgson, Associate Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University, and author of "More Equal Than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century"

13:06Chechnya's President's Death

A look at the fallout from the assassination of the president of Chechnya.

Guests

Dmitri Trenin, Deputy Director, Program Co-chair, Senior Associate, Carnegie Moscow Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , retired Soviet Colonel and co-author—“Russia’s Restless Frontier, The Chechen Factor In Post Soviet Russia”

13:32Parental Discrimination in the Workplace

The playing field may be leveling off for working women, but what happens once they plan to start a family? A look at parental discrimination in the workplace, and how it affects the careers of American mothers (and fathers).

Guests

Joan Williams, Executive Director of the Program on Gender, Work and Family and Professor at the Washington College of Law, American University; also author of "Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It" (Oxford)

Jocelyn Samuels, Vice president, education and employment, National Women's Law Center

Thomas Frank Coleman, Executive Director, Unmarried America

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