Emily Campbell, Hospital Wards, Introverts & Extroverts

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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All eyes were on Laurel Hubbard at yesterday's women's Olympic weightlifting. That's because she's the first transgender athlete to compete in the Games, but it was Team GB's Emily Campbell who made history. Five years ago, Emily was working with children who had special needs, but now she's the first British woman ever to stand on the Olympic podium for weightlifting, taking home the silver. We talk about women and weightlifting with Sam Prynn from StrongHer Gym.

Women trash-talking men and attempts to redress the gender imbalance have gone too far: that's what the journalist James Innes Smith believes. He shares his viewpoint with Fiona Sturges, from the Financial Times and the Guardian, who doesn't agree.

Some NHS trusts have issued guidance stating that people should stay on hospital wards based on the gender they identify with and can choose which showers and toilets to use. That's according to today's Daily Telegraph. But many people feel that the privacy from single sex wards is part of their recovery. The merits of mixed versed single sex wards has always been debated and policy has changed as a result. We speak to Sally Sheard, a health policy analyst and historian.

Porn made especially for teenagers: what do you think? In a now deleted but much discussed and decried tweet last week the journalist Flora Gill suggested "entry level" porn should be made available to teenagers as an antidote to the hard core material they’re already accessing online. Does she have a point? We talk to journalist and author Eleanor Mills, and Lucy Emmerson from the Sex Education Forum.

Introvert or extrovert? Which are you? Are you in a relationship with the opposite, and has lockdown made it tough? We speak to Ali Roff Farrar who's an introvert whose husband is an extrovert, and Sonya Barlow who's an extrovert and is going out with an introvert.

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0:41.0	Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensa from BBC. podcasts. I've missed our conversations over the last couple of weeks but a break is good for the soul not the
0:55.5	waistline I hope you'll be managing one if you've not already had something or some time to yourself
1:00.2	already although I recognize holidays are also causing a great deal of stress at the moment
1:05.0	as both everyone, including the politicians, grapple with the rules and the insults fly.
1:10.6	But speaking of insults and how we talk to and about one another, today I'm joined by a journalist and author who feels that in the attempt to redress gender imbalance, men are being gradually airbrushed out.
1:22.0	He uses research by the BBC no less last month
1:25.2	about our audiences to bolster his case. More than a quarter of men feel that the
1:29.2	BBC no longer reflects them something we'll get into, not least because the author in question
1:34.4	James and his Smith believes Radio 4 has turned into one long episode of Woman's Hour.
1:40.6	His concern is broader than the BBC and is more about how he feels women are regularly writing and talking badly about men often in sexist terms, terms that wouldn't be acceptable the other way round.
1:53.5	A recent example include the comments by some women, although not exclusively so, some men made
1:58.4	these remarks to, after Matt Hancock resigned as health secretary after being pictured kissing an aid.
2:03.6	Women writing, some women writing and talking about Mr Hancock being unattractive
2:08.0	and punching above his weight. That's just one example. He believes having a pop at men, whether it's about their
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