Most of the world's radio stations set aside a part of their schedules for women's affairs, calling it the "Woman's Nook," or the "Woman's Corner," "the Woman's Program," and so on. They vary in importance: at times weekly, at times every day or two.
In the following article we shall take a quick look at the "Woman's Corner" on some of the world's
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radio stations: from what does this corner draw its inspiration, and who are the women entrusted with it?
1 — From the land of Thailand we are greeted by the face of Nilawan Pintong, editor-in-chief of the women's magazine "Satri Sarn" and supervisor of the "Woman's Corner" on Radio Thailand, to which sixty thousand families listen, the educated and the illiterate among them. Nilawan draws
her programs from the people's need, filling them with music, news, and child care, and never forgetting her remarks on woman's beauty — her first concern.
"Our most successful programs with the women listeners," says Nilawan, "are the interviews with prominent personalities. I myself take charge of putting the questions and raising the problems with people of specialization and experience — doctors, nurses, and women leaders... And next June we shall be ready for television, which is beginning its regular transmission..."
Nilawan concludes her talk by saying: "We in Asia write to the radio stations to express our displeasure; what pleases us in them we meet with silence. And the silence of the women listeners about my programs is proof of their satisfaction with them!"
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2 — Mrs. Thurayya Sirri says that she began her work at the Egyptian radio in the year 1934, and that what encouraged her to stay was the response of the listeners and their intense admiration for her voice. After that, womankind poured into the radio until the number of women employees — announcers, supervisors of corners, and news editors — reached 72 ladies, which is equal to 35% of the total staff...
Woman at the Egyptian radio is responsible for a number of corners, the most important of
which are "the General Culture Corner," "Variety," "To Fathers and Their Children," "Questions and Answers," and others...
And the six women announcers
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have insisted on being treated with the men announcers on the same footing, whether in working hours or in the relaying of outside broadcasts.
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3 — In Laos you can hear, at seven o'clock every evening, the news bulletin read by a woman — she is Mrs. Ourdon Sananikone, who translates the news from French and English into her own language, which she says resembles the Sanskrit tongue. Every three days the news bulletin is followed by a program devoted to woman, which she writes herself, drawing it from the need of woman