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Hello, Jenny Murray, welcoming you to the Woman's R Podcast for Wednesday, the 12th of August.

Good morning. In today's program, the booming new industry known as Femtec.

What products are being offered to women and why has investment in this area

exploded in the last five years? In Black and White, Alexander Wilson's story of a mixed race,

Essex's girl years of hard work to become a barrister. And no longer George Elliott,

but Marianne Evans, the women's prize for fiction, publishes 25 novels written by women who

could only get recognition by posing as men. Now it's Marianne who wrote Middle March.

As I'm sure you've heard in the news, the Democratic candidate for the American Presidency,

Joe Biden has announced the name of the woman who will be his running mate in November election.

If they win, will be America's vice president. She's Kamala Harris, a senator for California,

who was Biden's former rival for the Democratic nomination. She's the first woman of color to be

nominated for National Office by a major political party. Well, I'm joined from America by

Kelly Dittmar, director of research at the center of American women and politics at Rutgers

University. And by Kimberly Pila Allen, one of the founders of Higher Heights, an organization

supporting black women into elected office. Kimberly, how significant is her appointment not

only for women of color, but US women generally? Good morning. It is extremely significant.

Only three, this is now the third time that our nation has nominated a woman to be vice president

and the fourth for a woman to stand as part of a major party ticket in our 240-some odd years.

And women all over the country see this as a win, as being acknowledged for the contributions

that we have brought in this country since its founding. For women of color and black women

and Indian women specifically, it is a huge hat tip to all of our engagement, particularly

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