Carers and the pandemic, Blind pregnancy test, Suffrage Science Award
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In April we spoke to Liz Brookes who looks after her husband Mike, who has had vascular dementia and to Chris Black who cares for his wife, Helen, who has Picks disease, or Frontal Temperal dementia. How they are getting on six months later? Emily Holzhausen, Director of Policy and Public Affairs from Carers UK joins them.
For blind or partially sighted women it is impossible to read visual results of a standard pregnancy test. The Royal National Institute for the Blind has designed a prototype for a tactile test which means the user can maintain their independence and privacy. Jane Garvey talks to the Chair of the RNIB Ellie Southwood.
Leila and Sahand were both married to other people when they fell in love and had a child together. Adultery is a crime in Iran, fearing for their lives they fled their homeland for a safe life elsewhere. We speak to Leila and to the director Eva Mulvad who has made a documentary film ‘Love Child’ about their life over the last seven years.
Women still make up only 24% of those working in core science, technology, engineering and mathematics occupations in the UK, and recent data has revealed that women make up just 13% of students studying computer science in the UK. There is a similar lack of women studying mathematics courses. The Suffrage Science awards scheme hopes to change this. Jane is joined by science communicator Dr. Kat Arney and Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:41.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey and a warm welcome to the Women's |
| 0:43.9 | Our podcast. It's the sixth of November 2020. |
| 0:47.5 | Hello good morning. Welcome to Friday and we hear about refugees all the time but |
| 0:52.4 | what is it like to be one? We'll find out this morning. |
| 0:56.0 | Just a quarter of people working in STEM occupations in the UK are female. |
| 1:02.0 | Only 13% of people studying computer studies at university are women. |
| 1:08.0 | Why and what can be done to change that? Perhaps the Suffrage Science Awards will go some way to doing |
| 1:15.2 | something about that situation. That's later in the program. But we want to |
| 1:19.5 | focus initially on carers. I know that many of our regular listeners have caring responsibilities |
| 1:25.7 | of one sort or another and please do get involved this morning or email the program a little |
| 1:30.5 | bit later perhaps when you have more time at BBC Women's Hour on |
| 1:34.5 | social media or the website of course is how you can email us BBC.co. UK |
| 1:39.0 | forward slash Womons Hour. Research from Carers UK is showing that four in five carers are |
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