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Woman's Hour

Decisions about embryos, Female wildlife rangers, Amanda Blanc, Nude images and teens

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The physical and emotional challenges of in vitro fertilisation, or IVF, never fade from your memory - whatever the outcome. But what happens when you have been lucky enough to have a child or children and you still have frozen embryos in storage you are sure you will not use. null of the choices you face are easy – to donate to another couple in need, or to science, to let them be discarded or continue to preserve them. We hear from Alison Murdoch, Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Newcastle University and two women who have come to different conclusions about what they will do. A new study of over 5000 teenagers in 46 schools has found that more than a third of teenage girls who sent nude images of themselves had been pressured into doing so. Researchers found that girls felt “shamed” when their nude images were leaked, while boys said that the leaking could lead them to gain social status. It also revealed that 34% of girls were first asked to send a nude when they were 13 or younger. Emma is joined by Soma Sara, the founder of Everyone's Invited - a safe place for survivors to share their stories anonymously - and Ruby Wootton, associate director from Revealing Reality, one of the authors of the study - which was done in collaboration with PHSE, that's the national body for personal, social, health and economic education. Being a ranger in the wild - protecting animals from poachers, leading conservation efforts and sometimes putting yourself in the line of fire - isn't often a job taken on by women. In fact, less than 11% of the global wildlife ranger workforce is female - something many in the sector want to change. Holly Budge is a British adventurer who’s founded World Female Ranger Week following a successful World Female Ranger Day last year. Purnima Devi Barman is a conservationist from the state of Assam in north-eastern India who set up her own 'Stork Army' to save one species of bird. They both join Emma on the programme. The Treasury's Women in Finance Charter has published its annual review looking at gender diversity within the financial sector in the UK for 2021. Amanda Blanc is CEO of Aviva, the UK’s leading insurer and leads the Women in Finance Charter and speaks to Emma about the review as well as her experiences of sexism as one of a handful of female FTSE 100 bosses.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.4

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

0:10.8

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:12.9

A lot of you are still getting in touch about our Kate Bush interview yesterday, a chance

0:17.4

to hear from the singer-songwriter who rarely gives interviews but finds herself back at

0:21.6

the top of the charts 37 years on from running up that hill being released.

0:25.7

Thank you so much for all of the memories being shared and all of your responses.

0:29.7

I will come to those in the programme a little bit later but it's just wonderful reading

0:34.1

how you have connected to her and also how artists like her have helped you in your life

0:40.1

perhaps feel a little bit more like you.

0:42.5

I should say of course if you miss our exclusive conversation you can catch back up via

0:47.0

the Woman's Hour podcast on BBC Sounds.

0:49.8

On today's programme I will be joined by one of the few female CEOs of a FTSE 100 company

0:55.6

Amanda Blanc.

0:56.9

She is the CEO of a Viva, the UK's largest general insurance company.

1:00.4

She also leads the government's women in finance charter and is going to share with the

1:03.8

sustainable play for women working in that field with their annual review just published.

1:08.8

But she went viral herself recently after posting about sexist and derogatory comments she

1:13.3

received at her annual general meeting as the CEO from the company's own shareholders.

1:20.8

Newspapers reported that once stood up and said to her, you're not the man for the job.

1:26.0

She also praised her and other women on the board for their skills at quote, basic housekeeping

1:30.5

activities and a third said you should be wearing trousers.

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