Female Offender Strategy, Midwife shortage, Zara Rutherford, Annalena Baerbock

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Concerns that the criminal justice system is not responsive enough to the specific needs of women are longstanding. In June 2018 the government published its Female Offender Strategy. It sought to reduce crime, pressure on services and the cost of dealing with women in the CJS, and to improve outcomes for women at all points in the system. The National Audit Office have just released a report examining the success of that strategy so far and are critical of the government’s efforts in implementing it. Kate Paradine, Chief Executive of Women in Prison joins Emma. Midwives are under a ‘worrying amount’ of pressure and are being ‘dangerously overworked’ according to former NHS midwife, Piroska Cavell. According to a survey by the Royal College of Midwives from October 2021, over half of their members considering leaving the profession due to the current situation. Emma speaks to Piroska about her own experience of being a midwife on the front line and Royal College of Midwives’ Dr Mary Ross-Davie about the challenges facing maternity services. Nineteen year old Zara Rutherford has become the youngest woman ever to fly solo around the world. Her journey spanned 5 months, 32,000 miles and five continents. And to top it all she only got her pilot’s licence two years ago. Who is Annalena Baerbock? The new German foreign minister met with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov last week in Moscow, and delivered a warning that her country was prepared to pay a high price to defend its values, if Russia invades Ukraine. Why is her role in the diplomacy significant, and how did she become Germany’s first female foreign minister? Emma speaks to Michaela Kuefner, Chief Political Editor at Deutsche Welle. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Piroska Cavell Interviewed Guest: Dr Mary Ross-Davie Interviewed Guest: Zara Rutherford Interviewed Guest: Kate Paradine Interviewed Guest: Michaela Kuefner

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.3	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.0	Good morning and welcome to the programme and on the first day of the week that the rules
0:13.8	are changing again in England, meaning that from Thursday the 27th of January, if you have
0:18.7	an office job in England, you can go back into the office and leave wherever you have built
0:23.3	some semblance of working life in your home, whether that's in your bed, on the floor,
0:27.7	behind the door, behind. Or perhaps not quite, but starting to, depends on of course where
0:33.0	you work and some of the rules there. But is that good news or bad from your viewpoint?
0:38.2	According to a U-Gov poll, there's a difference between the sexes on this one, with more men
0:42.0	in London certainly wanting to return to the office than women, or getting to some of
0:46.2	the figures and some of those details shortly. But how is this playing out in your life?
0:51.3	We've had nearly two years of disruption. Are you welcoming going back to the office
0:55.8	if that does affect you? Do you want to or are you looking forward to it? Perhaps you're
0:59.8	not looking forward to it, but you know it's good for you. Or maybe you're hoping the whole
1:03.8	shape of work will have changed during this time, that greater flexibility will now not
1:08.8	be frowned upon. The humanity of work perhaps will be a bit more reflected. Or when you do
1:14.4	hear that there is a sex-based difference on this, men wanting something more, going
1:19.5	to the office in this case, certainly according to this poll versus women, but also I'm stressing
1:23.9	Justin in London, it could be different elsewhere, of course. Are you worried that some women
1:29.2	will be left behind in this if this is the trend? And that the harm on women's careers
1:33.8	is something we shouldn't lose sight of, the potential harm. Text me here at Women's
1:37.7	Hour on 84844, text of course charged your standard message, right? Got to mention
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