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Woman's Hour

Andrea Prudente, Zara Aleena, Women in Science, Loo queues at festivals

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

An American pregnant woman who was on holiday in Malta this month couldn't get an induced medical miscarriage when she needed it because of the country's strict abortion laws. Andrea Prudente ended up going to Mallorca to get treatment, where she’s recovering in a hotel. She joined Emma. Zara Aleena, 35, was assaulted as she walked home in East London in the early hours of Sunday. The Met Police believe she was the victim of an "opportunist stranger attack". She died later in hospital. Emma speaks to Andrea Simon, Director of End Violence Against Women Coaltion and Zoe Billingham, former Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary about women's safety. Women in science are less likely to have their contributions recognised than their male counterparts - for example on a scientific paper or named on a patent - according to new analysis. A team of economists in the US found that women often have to work twice as hard as men to earn credit. But what's it like for women in science here in the UK? Monica Grady, CBE is a Professor at the Open University. She joins Emma as does co-author of the US study, Professor Julia Lane from the Wagner School of Public Policy at NYU. Have you ever noticed the queue for the women’s toilets is much longer than the queue for the men’s? Two Bristol university graduates have tried to resolve this issue, by inventing female urinals. They joined Emma to explain how it works. We have an update on Roe v Wade being overturned with the attorney Rebecca Kiessling and Jessica Arons from the American Civil Liberties Union. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.4

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:12.4

Today we will bring you the latest on the legal cases happening across America, as I

0:16.6

talked to you now, trying to stop outright abortion bans and the closure of abortion clinics

0:21.6

in the fallout from the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v Wade.

0:26.6

You will also hear the story of an American woman who happened to be holidaying in

0:30.5

Malta when her pregnancy started to go wrong and because of Malta's laws, she was denied

0:36.6

medical help.

0:38.2

And I'll also tell you about the research that female scientists, well some of them certainly,

0:42.8

have been waiting for.

0:44.0

Plus two inventors will be joining me today who hope to have solved the women's luke

0:49.5

a Q problem, if we can call it that, you'll certainly be aware of it.

0:53.1

You've been in a Q much longer than perhaps the men that you've gone out with for the evening,

0:57.2

if they've even had a Q in the men's louse.

1:00.3

And they've child this, this particular solution at festivals at Glastonbury, no less,

1:04.9

where I think they still are, where they'll be joining me from.

1:07.5

More details to come about their invention, but it does give me the perfect excuse to ask

1:11.9

you this morning.

1:13.2

If you could invent something for women, what would it be?

1:18.0

It doesn't matter if you can't quite imagine how it would work.

1:21.1

Could you please tell me?

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