Being a barrister, Historian Suzannah Lipscomb, Stopping Breastfeeding

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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New research highlights how many women leave the bar mid-career. So why is it so difficult for women to progress in a career as a barrister? We hear from a barrister currently on maternity leave and another who has returned to the profession after having children. After our programmes on feeding your baby, you told us how hard it is to find help if you’re, for whatever reason, trying to stop breastfeeding. Whether its dealing with a baby or child who doesn’t want to stop, staying full of milk when you need to go back to work, or dealing with the emotional and hormonal fall out. You wrote to us about all of these things. So what should women be aware of when they stop breast feeding? And what can they do to help themselves and their babies? We speak to International Board Certified Lactation Consultant Clare Meynell and Clare Byam-Cook, author of 'What to expect when you're breast-feeding, and what if you can't?' Historian Suzannah Lipscomb uncovers the lives, behaviours and attitudes to love, marriage and sex of ordinary 16th and 17th century French women. Based on the evidence of over a thousand cases brought before the moral courts of the Protestant church of Languedoc. She joins Jenni to discuss her new book ‘The Voices of Nimes - Women, Sex & Marriage in Reformation Languedoc. We remember the author Andrea Levy We hear the fifth story of our family secrets series. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Helen Fitzhenry Interviewed guest: Arlene Small Interviewed guest: Sarah Langford Interviewed guest: Suzannah Lipscomb Interviewed guest: Clare Meynell Interviewed guest: Clare Byam-Cook

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0:00.0	Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to Friday's edition of The Woman's Our Podcast.
0:10.2	A couple of weeks ago we talked about feeding your baby. Today it's coming to a close.
0:16.6	What is the best way to stop breastfeeding? Family secrets and we hear from Moira who
0:22.5	told us about a problem she'd suspected all her life but only learned the truth as an adult.
0:29.7	And the rare personal histories of women in 16th and 17th century France discovered in the
0:35.2	court reports of the Protestant Church of Longodocque. Now this week the Western circuit
0:41.7	a body which represents the interests of barista in the south and south west of England
0:46.4	published the results of research into the number of women who are leaving the bar and the
0:50.8	reasons why. We've also read about complaints from one young barista who warned her male colleagues
0:57.5	to cut out what she called their stag-do behaviour. Two thirds of those who left the profession in
1:04.0	the Western circuit over the last six years were women. Almost all the men who left went on to
1:09.6	be judges or retired. The majority of women who walked away were in the middle of their career.
1:15.6	So why are they doing it? Arlene Small is a practicing barista who specialises in family
1:22.1	finance and children. Sarah Langeford's speciality is a criminal and family law and she's the author
1:28.7	of In Your Defense about her own experience. At the moment she's on maternity leave I spoke to
1:34.8	them earlier this morning. What significance would Sarah attach to the new research?
1:40.4	I don't think that there has been a report which has broken down practice area like this is done.
1:45.2	So we've got statistics from the bar standards board who are regulators about
1:53.0	how few female PCs there are and how few women baristas there are. But what is really
2:00.8	significant on the ground from someone who's done it is where we lose baristas is in court-based
2:06.9	practices like crime and in family areas as well and that's because of the practical difficulties
2:14.5	of the job when you've got children especially very small children. What are the practical difficulties?
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