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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:11.2 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
0:13.7 | Both Russia and China's authorities are reaching for levers of the state in a bid to boost |
0:18.9 | the number of children born. |
0:20.4 | I don't know if you've seen these two separate stories, but I wanted to bring them to your |
0:23.0 | attention because they're doing it in different ways and for differing reasons. |
0:28.0 | In Russia, President Putin has revived a Soviet era award for women who have 10 or more |
0:34.0 | children. |
0:35.0 | They will be awarded the Mother Heroine Gold Medal, decorated with the Russian flag and |
0:38.6 | the country's coat of arms, and awarded a one-off payment of £1 million, which equates |
0:44.0 | to around £13,500. |
0:46.8 | After their 10th child has reached its first birthday and on the condition, the other nine |
0:51.5 | children are still alive. |
0:53.7 | It's been launched as Russia faces a demographic crisis that's been made worse by the casualties |
0:57.7 | from the war in Ukraine and also people choosing to leave the country. |
1:03.1 | News from China today reveals that the country's health authorities are clamping down on abortions |
1:08.4 | which are, quote, not medically necessary to tackle its plunging birth rate, amid concerns |
1:14.0 | about an untenable ageing population. |
1:17.6 | What is your reaction when you hear of such state interventions when it comes to women's |
1:22.0 | bodies, women's choices, autonomy, families, how they're formed, the flexing of the state |
1:27.8 | muscle to try and influence procreation in this way? |
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