Mamamia Out Loud podcast reports record listeners & announces live show
The publisher noted COVID-19 had accelerated the intimate medium’s rapid growth.
The Omny Studio data compares February 2020 to February 2021. As the pandemic ramped up, so did
Mamamia Out Loud’s output, with hosts Mia Freedman, Jessie Stephens and Holly Wainwright upping it from two episodes per week to three.
The podcast also announced it would be going on a live tour this spring.
The live version of the podcast will cover “what women are talking about”, in line with Mamamia’s ethos.
Mamamia also noted podcasting’s growing role in the cultural conversation, which has helped the publisher attract a variety of guests. In recent months, Mamamia founder Freedman has had NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on her
8 Historical Working Women Moments for 8 March
For what was once International Working Women’s Day, before it became International Women’s Day upon being co-opted by the UN and its corporate sponsors, we have written on 8 struggles throughout history in which working women played a vital and influential role.
1. The 1915 Rent Strike in Glasgow, Scotland
During the First World War, in May 1915, landlords in overcrowded Glasgow made the decision to increase rents. Tenants rightly saw this as profiteering (there was a law against that!) and refused to pay the increase but continued to give the “factor” (the landlords’ rent collector) the old rent. This was the start of the rent strike. The landlords responded by individual evictions via the Sheriff’s Court but were surprised by the collective response. Working class women formed tenants’ associations like the famous South Govan Women’s Housing Association, led by Helen Crawfurd, Mary Barbour, Agnes Dollan and Jessie S