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Makers: Women Who Make America is a 2013 documentary film about the struggle for women's equality in the United States during the last five decades of the 20th century. The film was narrated by Meryl Streep and distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service as a three-part, three-hour television documentary in February 2013.
Makers: Women Who Make America: With Meryl Streep, Gloria Steinem, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Pat Schroeder. This series documents stories of women's contributions to some of the most important moments in the history of America.
This documentary series examines how women have helped shape America over the past 150 years, striving for a full and fair share of political power and economic opportunity.
MAKERS made television history in 2013 with its three-part PBS documentary which told the story of the modern American women’s movement for the first time. But a lot has happened since then.
Chart the last five years of the women’s movement and its re-energized, intersectional fight for equality. Activists, journalists, entertainers, athletes, and politicians report from the frontlines of the feminist tidal wave. Special. Not Done: Women Remaking America.
The story of the birth of the modern Women’s Movement. When Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique came out in 1963, millions of American women felt the constraints of 1950s post-war culture, which confined them to the home or to low-paying, dead end jobs.
MAKERS is a multi-platform media project showcasing the personal stories of hundreds of groundbreaking American women. Originally conceived by the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of oral and visual history, the project is seven years in the making and has been supported by Revson since its inception.
