Anya Hindmarch, Women on Boards, Rosie Aycliffe, Ruthie Henshall on Care Homes
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In 2016 Mia Ayliffe Chung was killed at a remote farmworkers’ hostel while backpacking in Australia. What she didn’t realise at the time and what her mum Rosie Ayliffe later discovered was backpackers like Mia were exposed to widespread exploitation including sexual harassment, inadequate health and safety and substandard living conditions. Since Mia's death Rosie has been campaigning to improve conditions for young casual workers, helping to change the law in three of the six states of Australia. She has written a book about Mia called Far From Home.
Anya Hindmarch is an entrepreneur, a global business woman, mother of five and a stepmother. Now she's turned 50 she's turned her hand to writing - putting together A Manual for Life with the very tongue in cheek title "If In Doubt Wash Your Hair".
In the UK now more than a third (34.3%) of FTSE 350 board positions are now held by women. But what do boards do? And how can you get on one? To discuss these questions Emma is joined by Dambisa Moyo, renowned economist, named as one of Time Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People in the World and author of a new book How Boards Work; and Fiona Hathorn, CEO of Women on Boards UK.
As of Tuesday this week residents leaving their care home to go for a walk or to visit a loved one’s garden no longer have to isolate for two weeks on their return. But actor Ruthie Henshall is concerned about the potential ‘grey area’ around this relaxation of the rules which could continue to limit some families’ access. Ruthie, along with the group Rights for Residents, has delivered a petition with 300,000 signatures to the House of Commons. She explains her concerns and what she would like the government to do.
Presented by Emma Barnett Producer: Louise Corley
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett, and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning. Don't forget to pack a pencil if you're going out today |
| 0:12.8 | to vote in the local elections. You need to take your own in these very strange |
| 0:16.4 | pandemic times. And for some of you, it will be a real day out. |
| 0:20.8 | As you may be one of the millions now forced to work from home, |
| 0:23.8 | joining those who've always done it, or found themselves in that spot |
| 0:27.5 | at any moment away from the desk, even queuing down at the local polling booth |
| 0:31.9 | is one to save up. But as a report from the BBC shows today, a very striking report, |
| 0:36.4 | the way that we work, or some of us work, is going to drastically change. |
| 0:41.5 | Almost all 50 of the UK's biggest employers questioned by the BBC have said that they do not plan |
| 0:46.5 | to bring staff back to the office full-time, embracing a mix of home and office working. |
| 0:51.2 | Currently, people who can work from home are still advised to do so. |
| 0:55.2 | Some will be noting, Riley, that it is women who have asked for this flexibility for years. |
| 1:00.8 | But how women work is something we are exploring today with one of our top business women, |
| 1:05.2 | the designer Anja Heinmach, an leading economist author and active multi-bord member, |
| 1:10.0 | Dambi Samoyo. Anja, who's just written her first book in an attempt to share some of the things |
| 1:15.1 | she's learned on the way to turning 50, thinks emotion in business is a female superpower. |
| 1:21.0 | And after being told in one of her own meetings to take the emotion out of something, |
| 1:25.6 | she firmly disagreed with that person, arguing if women do have an edge in business, |
| 1:30.8 | it's precisely because they bring emotion into it. |
| 1:34.0 | What is your view of that, your experience, things that have been said to you, |
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