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Thinking Allowed

Female jockeys; military migrants

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4973 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Military Migrants and the British Army. From Fiji to Ghana, the British military recruits soldiers to fight Britain's wars. Since 1998 overseas recruitment has been stepped up in response to labour shortages and diversity programmes. The sociologist, Vron Ware, talks to Laurie Taylor about her new book 'Military Migrants: Fighting for Your Country'. She argues that this new category of soldier inhabits a contradictory situation - on the one hand, praised as a 'hero' but on the other, stigmatised as an 'immigrant' and 'foreigner'. They're joined by the sociologist, Les Back. Also, Deborah Butler discusses her research on trainee female jockeys in the horse racing world.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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1:15.0

Yes, I'm afraid I'm only half with you at the moment because the other half of with me is at Kempton Park keeping an eye on the 355 race waiting for news on the winner.

1:28.0

I don't have any money on the race but I do have rather a special interest in two of the horses.

1:37.0

One of them, it's the favourite of this morning's paper, it's called Modern Lady,

1:40.0

and the other a horse called Marmot Bay is written by Miss Amy Scott. A very modern lady herself in that race riding is still overwhelmingly a male occupation.

1:49.4

According to the latest figures on the flat, women constitute just 11% of professional jockeys,

1:55.2

while in national hunt racing the proportion of professionals falls to just 1%.

2:00.6

However, we also know that most of the young people enrolling on apprenticeships in the horse racing industry are women,

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