Can sex offenders change? Oestrogen and Covid; Childless older women

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Becky’s father was convicted of sex offences against children and sent to prison. He has since been released but while in prison he undertook a sex offender rehabilitation programme. For a BBC documentary Can Sex Offenders Change? Becky meets a growing number of sex offenders who have not been sent to prison, and have received treatment in the community. She tries to understand what drove them to commit these horrific crimes, whilst seeing what treatment is available to stop them committing any more. She joins Jane to discuss along with Professor Belinda Winder, Research Director Centre for Crime Offending, Prevention and Engagement at Nottingham Trent University and a co-founder of the charity Safer Living Foundation.

Scientists across the world are keen to find out if the female hormone oestrogen could offer protection against the worst symptoms of Covid-19. Data gathered from the Zoe Covid app created with Kings College London seems to suggest that younger women are at lower risk of developing symptoms but hormone replacement therapy taken by menopausal women doesn’t offer the same protection. We hear from menopause expert Dr Louise Newson who’s one of the co-authors of the new study.

The Office for National Statistics has estimated that the number of women who get to 80 without children will almost triple in the next 25 years. As a result demand for paid care in nursing homes is expected to increase sharply. Why is the focus on childless women and not men, and how is the data being reported in the media? Jody Day is a psychotherapist, author and founder of Gateway Women, a global organisation for women who are involuntarily childless.

Women in comedy are calling for a sexual harassment protocol after what they say are 'decades of abuse'. Stand-up comedian, writer and satirist Kiri Pritchard-Mclean and comedian and writer Nina Milligan join Jane to explain why they want clubs to adopt a kite mark-style system, rather than having to rely on whisper networks in the industry.

Presented by Jane Garvey Produced by Sarah Crawley

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jane Garvey, and it's the Woman's Hour podcast Tuesday, the 18th of August,
0:05.7	2020.
0:06.7	Hello.
0:07.7	On the programme today, Covid and Estrogen, does Estrogen protect women?
0:12.8	This is a study that's been ongoing, and the contributor you'll hear from today, Louise
0:17.0	Newson, has been on the programme before.
0:19.2	What has she found out since her last appearance back in May?
0:23.0	Also today, sexual harassment on the comedy circuit, something we'll talk about a little
0:28.0	bit later.
0:29.0	Also, in the programme you might have heard on the BBC News bulletins of yesterday, or
0:33.3	seen in the newspapers today, headlines like this, childless baby boomer women to bring
0:39.2	rise in social care costs.
0:41.8	That's the telegraph version in the mail today, the childless generation, care time bomb
0:48.2	of the 60s women who chose not to become mothers.
0:53.0	How do we cover this story?
0:55.4	Why do we cover it in such a way?
0:57.0	Is there any such thing as a childless man, apparently not?
1:01.7	Something we'll discuss a little later in the programme this morning.
1:05.0	First though, can sex offenders change?
1:07.7	It's a big question.
1:08.7	It's a hugely important one.
1:10.7	Becky has made a documentary for the BBC called Can Sex Offenders Change.
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