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Woman's Hour

Killed Women campaign, Anti-ageing products and young girls, France birth rate

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Killed Women is a group formed of relatives of women who were murdered in domestic abuse situations. They are campaigning to get the minimum sentence for domestic homicide raised, so it’s the same as if the victim was killed on the street. Julie Devey, a member of Killed Women whose daughter Poppy was stabbed to death in bed, joins Nuala McGovern alongside Clare Ward KC, who led last year’s independent review into Domestic Homicide Sentencing.

When and if a woman chooses to have children is becoming one of the defining issues of our time. It's an issue of great concern to Emmanuel Macron, the President of France - where there were 1.8 births for every woman last year. He's announced plans to incentivise people to have more children including reforming parental leave and free fertility checks for everyone at the age of 25. To discuss this Nuala is joined by Stefania Marassa, Associate Professor of Economics at Cergy Paris University and Sarah Harper, Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford.

Last week, a chain of pharmacies in Sweden banned the sale of anti-aging skincare products to customers under 15. The measures come amid a growing trend of young girls’ interest in high-end skincare products, after seeing them used by influencers on YouTube and TikTok. Nuala speaks to Monika Magnusson, The CEO of Apotek Hjärtat, the company which introduced the age restriction, and Abby Robbins, a mother from the UK, who has first-hand experience of this trend.

In the second part of our series Breaking The Cycle the SHiFT guide Eva has received a crisis call from one of the young people she works with. Though she's worried about him she's pleased that he reached out, it shows he is beginning to trust her. Jo Morris reports from SHiFT in Greater Manchester. It's a new approach to supporting teenagers at risk of getting into serious trouble.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lottie Garton

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

0:05.2

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

0:10.2

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

0:13.0

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

0:18.0

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

0:22.0

But you know I also know that comedy is really

0:24.4

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

0:29.6

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

0:36.2

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0:46.0

Hello, this is Nula McGovran

0:48.0

and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:51.0

France will only be stronger if it revives the birth rate. So says it's

0:55.2

president Emmanuel Macron but although there are generous tax breaks for parents and

0:59.6

more incentives to be introduced with his latest plans. It still hasn't ignited baby

1:04.4

fever among the population. So what is stopping French women having children?

1:09.4

And I also want to know from you, if you are or were able to have children what

1:14.8

factored into your decision to stop when you did whether that was after one two or

1:19.7

many more and what if anything would propel you to go again as we talk about declining

1:26.4

birth rates in the UK in France and around the world. You can text the program

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the number is 84844 on social media

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We're at BBC Woman's Hour or you can email us through our website and if you'd like to

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