Fatimah Asghar, teenagers and alcohol, nursing's gender pay gap

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The poet and writer Fatimah Asghar is the voice behind the web series Brown Girls. She talks about her experience of being a young Pakistani American woman and tells us about her new poetry collection.

Men hold one in five of the best paid jobs in nursing, why? Alison Leary Professor of Health Care at London South Bank University tells us about the latest study in the nursing gender pay gap.

The writer Mariam Khan talks about her anthology ‘It’s Not About The Burqa’ with Salma El-Wardany who contributed a piece about sex.

Is it a good idea to introduce children to alcohol in the family home? How can they be encouraged to have sensible drinking habits? Mandy Saligari, a former addict and author of Proactive Parenting, and Dorothy Newbury-Birch a Professor of Alcohol and Public Health Research at Teeside University discuss.

Clara Schumann was a famous pianist in the 19th century. 2019 is her bicentenary. We hear about her life and success from Beverley Vong, curator of the Clara Schumann Festival at St John's Smith Square and Lucy Parham who created the I, Clara stage tour.

Why is genital herpes still a source of embarrassment? Marian from the Herpes Virus Association and Slyvia and Jess talk about their experiences of herpes.

The artist and author Laura Dodsworth tells us about her latest project which features images of 100 vulvas. Two of the women photographed for the book - Womanhood: The Bare Reality - Lily and Saschan join the conversation.

Presented by Jane Garvey Produced by Rabeka Nurmahomed Edited by Jane Thurlow

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0:41.0	Hi good afternoon and welcome to the weekend edition of the program.
0:44.5	And today, what can we offer you?
0:45.9	Well, we can certainly offer you a very frank conversation about a book cataloging 100
0:51.4	vulvers. I'll do the gags here so you don't have to or of course it could be a
0:56.4	vulvo couldn't it? The conversation in the book and the film is about vulvers and
1:00.8	vaginas and the fact is that even though we shouldn't a lot of people
1:04.7	use the word vagina to mean the whole kent and caboodle which it is not I reckon if the film
1:09.7	had been called a hundred Vulvers people would have thought it was a program about cars.
1:14.0	So much confusion so a frank conversation in this edition of the program about
1:18.4	volvers. We'll also talk to two women who've contributed to a book that features a
1:23.7	hundred of them. Also a bit more myth busting we'll discuss herpes and
1:28.5	celebrate Clara Schuman the 19th century pianist who coped with touring, a sick husband and eight children.
1:36.5	You can hear too from the poet Fatima Ashgar, the voice behind the web series Brown Girls,
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