Caroline Criado Perez on the gender data gap, Maggie Gee, Madeleine Mitchell
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The world has been built by men, for men and, according to Caroline Criado Perez, we’ve struggled to do anything about it because we’ve been using biased data that excludes women. She explains why and what she thinks we can do about it. Author, Maggie Gee discusses her latest novel, Blood – an exploration of some of the darker human emotions in a literary comedy with dashes of thriller, elements of farce, criminal caper and political satire. The English Collective of Prostitutes is campaigning for the decriminalisation of sex work. We discuss the launch of their new campaign #makeallwomensafe and claims the current law puts 70,000 women’s lives at risk by forcing them to work alone. Violinist Madeleine Mitchell talks to Jenni about her new album Grace Williams: Chamber Music, in which she performs previously unpublished work by the Welsh composer. And, we hear why school governors and trustees are going to Westminster today to lobby MPs for more money.
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, Jenny Mary welcoming you to Thursday's edition of the Women's Our |
| 0:39.0 | podcast. The English collective of Prostitudes today launches a campaign for the decriminalisation of sex work. |
| 0:46.0 | Is their demand the best way to fulfil their aim to make all women safe? |
| 0:51.0 | This afternoon, school governors and trustees will march to |
| 0:54.7 | parliament to lobby MPs for more money. How serious is the shortfall across |
| 0:59.5 | the education system. A new novel from Maggie G, one of Granter's original best young British |
| 1:06.0 | novelists, Blood, is her 13th, and the Welsh composer Grace Williams will be played by |
| 1:12.2 | the violinist Madeline Mitchell. |
| 1:14.0 | She's recorded some of Williams previously unpublished work and I'm sorry we're not able to |
| 1:20.9 | podcast the full live performance because of copyright of course but you can |
| 1:26.4 | listen again if you go to the website. Caroline Criado Perez has become something of a feminist hero. |
| 1:34.8 | She led the campaigns to get Jane Austin on the 10 pound note, |
| 1:38.8 | Millicent Garrett Fawcett into Parliament Square and Twitter to revise its procedures for dealing with abuse. Her latest publication is a hefty |
| 1:47.9 | tone called Invisible Women, exposing data bias in a world designed for men. But what does data bias mean? |
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