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Woman's Hour

Clea and Joanna from The Home Edit, Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, Menopause report

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Friends and business partners Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin have become stars of pandemic feel-good TV, with their Netflix show Get Organised with The Home Edit. They go into someone’s home – be it a Hollywood celebrity or a stressed family of five - and transform a cluttered space into something beautiful and functional. The emphasis is firmly on giving busy women back some time and headspace through better organisation of their homes. Clea and Joanna join Emma to give some pro tips and explain how they got the business off the ground with a little help from Hollywood actor and exec Reese Witherspoon. Women with learning disabilities die on average 26 years younger than the general population. This shocking figure is contained in a new report which investigates health inequalities for people with learning disabilities, and the resulting premature and, often, entirely avoidable deaths. In her first interview since taking up the role of Chair of Trustees at the Learning Disability charity Mencap, the former Director General of the CBI Dame Carolyn Fairbairn tells Emma about why the life, and death, of her sister Diana Fairbairn, who had learning disabilities and cerebral palsy, and who died last December, has inspired her new campaigning role to improve support for people with learning disabilities. As the Women and Equalities Committee in Parliament releases its final report into the overlooked impacts of the menopause, Emma speaks to the Chair of that Committee, Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, about the actions she wants the government to now take up. These include consulting on making menopause a protected characteristic under the Equality Act – meaning employers would have to make reasonable adjustments for menopausal women in the workplace. Last month, we asked listeners about the matriarchs in their lives, the redoubtable women whose stories deserve to be told. Today, listener Kate from Cambridge tells her Grandmother ‘Babushka’s story.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.2

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Women's Air from BBC Radio 4.

0:09.8

In the debate about who becomes our next Prime Minister,

0:12.6

one policy area has yet to rear its head, or you may be feeling quite a few haven't,

0:16.4

but perhaps today's report by a cross party group of MPs may change that.

0:21.4

Menopause and the workplace.

0:23.6

MPs on the Women and Equality's Committee are arguing that women going through the menopause

0:27.9

should be given greater rights and protection where they work.

0:31.6

They want menopause to become a protected characteristic like pregnancy,

0:36.2

because they say a lack of support in the UK is pushing women out of work,

0:40.9

and they want more from employers and better legal rights.

0:44.7

How do you feel about this?

0:45.7

You may have gone through the menopause,

0:47.2

you may be in it at the moment, in the trenches,

0:49.4

if it's affecting you in the way that we'll hear a little bit about in this report.

0:53.4

You may be thinking about it in the future.

0:55.8

In a moment, I'll be talking to Caroline Knurke's, the chair of the Women and Equality's Committee,

1:00.1

but I know from previous discussions that there is a variety of opinion on this,

1:04.3

about whether you would feel comfortable talking to those that you work with,

1:08.5

about any such symptoms, whether it is the conversation you've ever had with your boss before,

1:12.8

or you feel like you would be able to,

1:14.9

or is it a push perhaps, that I should say, the report covers other areas as well,

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