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Woman's Hour

Businesswoman and entrepreneur Emma Grede, Crystal Hefner, Social media algorithms and misogyny

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Emma Grede, a native East Londoner, now a thriving businesswoman in the US, is known for her entrepreneurial prowess and successful collaborations with the Kardashian sisters. Emma is a driving force behind iconic brands like Good American and Skims. She will soon be making her mark as a guest investor on an upcoming episode of BBC’s Dragons' Den, and she joins Emma to explain how she's learned more from her business failures, and what she looks for in a potential investment.

The Welsh government has intervened in the running of the fire service in South Wales - after a toxic culture of misogyny and sexual harassment was uncovered during a review. In what's been called an unprecedented move, four Government-appointed commissioners have been brought in to restructure management. Emma speaks to Hannah Blythyn, Deputy Minister for social partnership and Member of the Senedd.

Crystal Hefner, spent almost ten years of her life inside the Playboy Mansion after meeting founder and editor of Playboy magazine - Hugh Hefner - when she was 21. She became one of his infamous ‘girlfriends’ before marrying him, travelled the world and attended lavish parties. She has now written a book, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself, in which she provides an insight into her time spent at the mansion and her experiences of beauty standards and objectification.

New research suggests social media algorithms prioritise serving harmful and misogynistic content to young people – with a fourfold increase across just five days shown to the study’s test personas. How do we keep young people safe online – particularly on social media sites? Emma discusses this issue with the report author, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr and Will Gardner from online safety organisation Childnet.

Presented by Emma Barnett Producer: Louise Corley Studio Engineer: Steve Greenwood

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm John Ronson and I'm an invisible enemy.

0:05.0

That changed people psychologically.

0:08.0

Words can be dangerous if you don't know the context.

0:12.0

We were told to stay at home.

0:15.0

We lived with an invisible enemy,

0:17.0

with only the internet for company.

0:19.0

That changed people psychologically.

0:21.0

I'm John Ronson, and I'll be unerthing the roots of the

0:24.4

culture wars that engulfed us then and still do now.

0:29.2

The award-winning podcast, Things Fell Apart Returns.

0:33.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:35.0

BBC Sounds.

0:36.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:40.0

Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's

0:42.8

from BBC Radio 4.

0:44.8

Good morning and welcome to the program.

0:46.8

Today I've been thinking about fortuitous meetings

0:49.3

because of my first guest today who's a successful British

0:52.0

businesswoman Emma Greed who made it to

0:53.9

Forbes his list of wealthiest self-made women after partnering with the

0:57.5

Kardashians on their clothing brands amongst other things which we'll get to

1:00.4

driving Kim Kardashian skims business to the huge success it is today as

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