Labor Day Special: Women at Work; Dr. Anthony Fauci; Michele Harper; Essential Workers - a podcast by WNYC

On this Labor Day holiday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews about working in challenging time:

Jennifer Palmieri, served as communications director for the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and White House communications director for President Barack Obama, and the author of She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man's World (Grand Central Publishing, 2020), argues that women need to move from competing on terms set by men to remaking the rules for themselves;
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, discusses how the U.S. is doing in its fight against COVID-19 and the effect the virus is having on the American healthcare system;
Michele Harper, emergency room physician and the author The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir (Riverhead Books, 2020), talks about her work as an emergency room physician at Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx as a Black woman and reflects on that work in the current time;
At the start of the pandemic grocery store workers were hailed as heroes on social media, sometimes given thanks in person, and occasionally even offered hazard pay. But now as the coronavirus crisis continues and people are antsy to return to normal, the gratitude and extra money for those on the front lines has mostly dried up.  Abha Bhattarai, reporter covering the retail industry for The Washington Post, talks about the morale among essential workers, like grocery store clerks or delivery people.

 

These interviews have been edited slightly.  The original broadcast is available here:

Declaring Independence From a Man's World (July 21, 2020)

A Conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci (June 23, 2020)

A Doctor's Story (July 8, 2020)

Essential Workers Are Starting to Feel Forgotten (Again) (August 24, 2020)

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