Climate Change Policy, Girlhood, Feminisation of the workplace
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The BBC has revealed that the Prime Minister is considering a major shift on key climate action policies. These changes include pushing back a ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars to 2035 and delaying the 2026 ban on off-grid oil boilers to 2035. The economist Kate Raworth joins Emma to discuss her reaction to this news.
If you’re on TikTok, “girl”-based trends are everywhere you look these days. From girl dinner to girl math, lazy girl job to hot girl walk, the list goes on. Girl math is the latest trend, with a hashtag with over 360 million views. Is it about reclaiming girlhood - or is it sexist and infantilizing? Behavioural scientist and author Professor Pragya Argawal and host of the “Adulting” podcast Oenone Forbat join Emma to discuss
The Met Police have announced that they aim to change the demographic of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Unit – where both Wayne Couzens and David Carrick worked - to have 20% women in the next two years. But why should it fall to women to improve workplace behaviours? To discuss, Emma is joined by Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne and workplace commentator Julia Hobsbawm.
Artist and author Fleur Pierets embarked on a performance art project with her wife, Julian, in 2017, aiming to get married in all the countries where same sex marriage was legal at the time. But their dream was cut short when Julian was diagnosed with late stage brain cancer in early 2018 and died six weeks later. It’s a story Fleur has put down on paper in her book “Julian”, which has just been translated into English and released in the UK.
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Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.8 | Good morning. |
| 0:12.0 | A shot of anger kicks off this programme today with a top environment economist responding |
| 0:16.8 | to the potential of the Prime Minister weakening some of the government's key green commitments. |
| 0:22.4 | I know from you and from polls that the environment is an important issue with female voters |
| 0:27.8 | in particular. |
| 0:28.8 | You'll be hearing shortly from Kate Rayworth, the author of the best-selling Donut Economics |
| 0:33.3 | book. |
| 0:34.3 | But feel free to have your voices heard too. |
| 0:36.7 | On this issue she'll lay out her take on it, but I'd like to hear yours. |
| 0:40.3 | I should say we invited a member of the Government on to Woman's Hour this morning, but no one |
| 0:44.5 | was available. |
| 0:45.8 | You can text the programme, 84844, text will be charged at your standard message rate. |
| 0:50.1 | What is your response to this potential watering down of the green commitments? |
| 0:54.1 | There's talk of we cannot afford this at this time, it has to be proportionate. |
| 0:58.2 | The Home Secretary said to my colleagues on the today programme that they were arbitrary |
| 1:02.6 | targets. |
| 1:03.6 | We'll get into all of that shortly on social media at BBC Woman's Hour or email us through |
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