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Woman's Hour

Claire Waxman, Victims' Bill, China birth rate, D-Mer Study, Academy Award nominations

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Victim’s and Prisoner’s Bill heads to the House of Lords today for the Committee Stage. What is it trying to achieve, and what difference will it make to women? Emma is joined by the Independent London Victim’s Commissioner, Claire Waxman OBE, and a woman who will share her personal experience of a partner convicted of child sexual abuse who, under the current law, still had access to his daughter.

China is experiencing its biggest population drop in six decades. In an attempt to recover from the ‘one-child policy’ introduced in 1980, the government are now urging women to have more children. But a large amount of women in China are saying no – they don’t want children, or to get married. To discuss this further, Emma is joined by Dr Ye Liu from King’s College London and Cindy Yu, host of the Spectator’s Chinese Whispers podcast.

D-MER is a relatively unknown condition that could affect around nine percent of mothers who breastfeed. Emma speaks to Charlie Middleton from the University of Dundee, who is leading a study into the condition to find out more about it, and Beth Strachan, who has D-MER and is currently breastfeeding.

The Oscar nominations are out, and many feel that there are some key women who haven’t made the list, but should have. Among these are Barbie director Greta Gerwig and actor Margot Robbie – although Ryan Gosling has been nominated for his role in the movie. There’s only one woman director nominated – Justine Triet. Are women being snubbed? Film journalist Karen Krizanovich joins Emma to discuss.

Presented by Emma Barnett Producer: Louise Corley Studio Engineer: Donald MacDonald

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and we read of the King's brother Prince Edward saying in a

0:53.8

speech abroad that men aren't doing a very good job at the moment apparently in the

0:57.8

context of the number of international conflicts and he also said that the world is not

1:02.3

in a happy place it's quite a time for it seems

1:05.8

many world leaders to be trying to convince women to have more children or any children at all.

1:11.5

Today we're going to look at the state of play in China

1:13.7

where text messages are being sent to women by government units in a bid to

1:18.6

encourage women to have more than

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