Euros 22 legacy, Kansas and abortion rights, Dance music and women, Sam Smith, Juliette Pochin

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Kansas is the first state in the US to decide in a referendum to protect abortion rights in a major victory for pro-choice groups. What impact could this have across the rest of America after the overturning of Roe vs Wade? Professor Fiona De Londras, Chair of Global Legal Studies at Birmingham Law School updates us. The Lionesses win is still being celebrated, with thousands gathering in Trafalgar Square on Monday to celebrate. The women’s game, however, has a history of being dramatically underfunded compared to the men’s and currently 37% of schools don’t offer girls’ football in PE. To change this, the government has announced a £230 million investment into improving grassroots football… but will it work? Former English international footballer Rachel Yankey and Francesca Brown, the founder and chief executive of Goals4Girls discuss their hopes for women’s football and the lasting legacy of the Euro win. We’re looking at dance music on the programme today. A new report has found that just 5% of dance music in the UK charts has a female as the lead artist. The report also looks at gender equality issues at festivals, and how ‘The Male Gaze’ places pressure on women in the industry. The Radio 1 DJ Jaguar joins Jessica, alongside Nicola Davies, the report’s lead author. Sam Smith was the first, and youngest woman to ever run a stockbroking company in the UK, and she often found herself the only woman in a room or trading floor. She's one of just nine female CEOs of companies in the FTSE 100 index, and has decided to step down from her role at the firm she founded FinnCap Group PLC. So what are her reflections on how things have changed for women in the 24 years since she joined the world of finance? Last year she turned 50 - at the same time her daughter left home for university. Thrown by how much it affected her, Juliette Pochin, a record producer working with artists ranging from Alfie Boe through to Harry Styles and the London Symphony Orchestra, has come out from behind the studio and written a cabaret show Music, Mayhem and a Mezzo. She is making her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe from the 5th to the 13th August. Presenter: Jessica Creighton Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Professor Fiona de Londras Interviewed Guest: Rachel Yankey Interviewed Guest: Francesca Brown Interviewed Guest: Jaguar Interviewed Guest: Nicola Davies Interviewed Guest: Sam Smith Interviewed Guest: Juliette Pochin

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:05.4	Hello, I'm Jessica Crichton, welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast.
0:08.7	Now it's been three days since England Women's Historic Heroes win and the ways of success
0:14.0	are still very much being felt.
0:16.2	Yesterday, thousands of fans crashed the FA website, trying to grab a ticket to the Lioness's
0:23.0	next big game at Wembley, which is in October.
0:25.6	There's also talk of the FA preparing to bid for the Women's World Cup in 2027, so it
0:30.7	looks like at the top level the women's game is flying.
0:34.8	But what about at grassroots level?
0:37.0	We'll be talking to a football legend about how to make sure the Lioness's success reaches
0:41.0	the thousands of young girls who want to play the game.
0:45.0	One of the issues for those young girls though is access.
0:48.5	I remember when I was a bit younger, neither my primary school or my secondary school offered
0:53.2	me football, but I could play with the boys at lunchtime.
0:57.9	But what about the girls that don't want to do that and want to play in a girl's only
1:01.7	space?
1:02.7	So I'd like to know what you think.
1:05.0	Do you have a young daughter or perhaps a niece who has been inspired by the Lionesses
1:08.8	but doesn't have the chance to play at school?
1:11.8	Or do you have a girl's only team where you live in England perhaps?
1:15.5	Let us know your experience and also what area you're in because it seems like a lot
1:20.1	of this comes down to where you are in the country as to how easily you'll be able to
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