Isabel Allende, Sex Matters, Julia Gillard, P Diddy trial

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Nuala McGovern is joined by the best-selling author Isabel Allende about her latest book My Name is Emilia Del Valle. It follows a young female journalist intent on covering the civil war in Chile in 1891 despite having to write under a man’s name.

This week we'll be hearing different perspectives on the recent Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman under the Equality Act, and how it could and should be interpreted on the ground. Today we hear from Helen Joyce, Director of Advocacy at Sex Matters and author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

Broadcaster Yinka Bokinni discusses the latest in the Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial. He’s been charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution. Combs has denied all charges.

Today the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership is launching the Gender Equality Index UK (GEIUK). It measures gender equality across 372 local authorities and says no area has achieved full parity between women and men. Exploring the complex links between gender equality, regional disparities and economic productivity we discuss how it can lead to a better future for women and men? Dr Caitlin Schmid who has lead the project and ex- Australian Prime Minister and Chair of GIWL -Julia Gillard are in the Woman's Hour studio.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Kirsty Starkey

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0:00.0	Hello, Russell Kane here.
0:03.1	I'm back for another season of character assassinating the nice guy
0:06.4	and binging up the baddies in evil genius.
0:09.2	Yep, even the biggest legends have their skeletons.
0:12.0	So join me and a panel of brilliant comedians
0:14.4	to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history
0:16.9	are more evil or more genius.
0:19.0	I just think every celebrity, said with respect, Russell,
0:22.1	is out of their minds. Evil genius with Russell. Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds,
0:34.0	music, radio podcasts. Hello, this is Newell O'MogGovern, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast.
0:41.9	Hello, and welcome to the program. Don't give up on love. That is just one of the uplifting
0:48.1	lines this morning from the best-selling Chilean American novelist Isabel Allende. She has a wide-ranging interview with me coming up.
0:57.5	Also today, we continue to hear different perspectives on the UK Supreme Court ruling
1:01.6	that decided the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010
1:05.5	refer to a biological woman and biological sex.
1:09.3	We'll hear from Helen Joyce, from the charity Sex Matters, one of the organisations who
1:13.5	intervened in the ruling.
1:15.1	We will also hear other views in coming programmes.
1:18.0	And as you tune in, have you already done more than your fair share of unpaid work in
1:24.6	your home compared with your male partner?
1:27.6	Well, we're going to be speaking to Julia Gillard, the ex-Australian Prime Minister and chair now of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership.
1:34.8	She's going to talk about a new tool that sheds light on how gender, social inequalities and geography intersect and shape our lives.
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