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🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, I'm Krupa Party and you're listening |
0:07.2 | to Women's Hour on Thursday 25th March. Hello and thank you for joining us. This morning, |
0:13.6 | we're picking up on a conversation started by gynecologist Dr Anita Mithra on Instagram |
0:19.0 | back in May, where she asked if women had noticed changes to their menstrual cycles. |
0:24.8 | Over two-thirds said yes. Now, we are a few months on from that informal survey, lockdowns |
0:31.0 | have come and gone and of course they've come back again and working from home, home |
0:35.0 | from home may have lost its charm. Schools have shut and reopened and our usual escapes |
0:41.2 | may be dinner with a friend or a workhouse at the gym. They aren't available to us in |
0:46.8 | the usual ways. How has this year impacted your period or your cycle? How has this left |
0:53.1 | you feeling? Anita's going to explain why these changes might be happening, but we want |
0:58.0 | to hear your stories about this too. So you'll find us over on Instagram and Twitter. We're |
1:03.1 | on the handle at BBC Women's Hour. Also on the programme, just over a week ago, eight women |
1:09.3 | were shot dead at three massage parlors near Atlanta in the US. Six of these women were |
1:15.2 | of Asian heritage. Now, these killings come in the context of a rise in abuse and assaults |
1:20.8 | against the East Asian and the Southeast Asian community globally. Two women will talk |
1:26.2 | us through their own experience of this. And we are together going to get our heads around |
1:31.9 | cryptocurrencies and why since the pandemic, the number of people investing in them is |
1:37.4 | on the rise. It's largely been men investing in them over the years, but the pandemic is |
1:42.6 | changing that trend. Are women taking more risks in the way they invest and what they choose |
1:48.1 | you? Change the way you manage your money over the past year. Do you follow your gut or |
1:53.0 | do you take more formal advice? I know I turn to my accountant further more often. You can |
1:57.9 | text women's hour on 84844, text a charge at your standard message rate. Check with your |
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