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🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters has been repeated in newspapers and online for years - the UN have even used this statistic.
But when you track down the source, the research behind this claim leaves much to be desired.
Presenter: Kate Lamble Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: Nigel Appleton Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
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0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
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0:38.0 | We're your weekly guide to the numbers in the news and in life and I'm Kate Lamble. |
0:47.4 | We always say if you've seen a figure you'd like us to figure out |
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0:55.4 | And that's just what loyal listener Hillary Kremen did, |
0:58.4 | sending us this headline from the Guardian newspaper. |
1:01.5 | Women, 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters. |
1:06.2 | An extraordinary claim. So we went searching for the extraordinary evidence to back it up. |
1:14.7 | The Guardian says this idea that women are 14 times more likely to die in a natural disaster |
1:20.5 | comes from a new report from women's environmental leadership Australia, |
1:25.0 | but our search quickly descends into a tangled web of references. |
1:30.0 | Because that Australian report points to a 2022 Norwegian research paper, |
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