Life for women in India, latest on the Windrush scandal, women and napping and access to therapy records in rape investigatios
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Nuala McGovern talks to Rosa Abraham & Rituparna Chakraborty about the fact that nearly half of the population in India is female, but the number of working women has fallen to record lows.
We hear how new research shows napping is good for us and helps our brain with Dr Ivana Rosenzweig and Dr Maja Schaedel.
The Windrush scandal began to surface in 2017 after it emerged that hundreds of Commonwealth citizens, many of whom were from the Windrush generation, had been wrongly detained, deported and denied access to healthcare and work. Most had no idea they had been silently affected by changing legislation. Five years after government apologised we talk to Human rights lawyer, Jacqueline McKenzie and victim of the scandal and advocate Glenda Caesars.
Nalette Tucker is one of our Grassroots Power Listers. She set up Sunnah Sports, which aims to get everyone involved in sport in a safe and accessible way, including those like Muslim women and girls who often face barriers to joining in with sport normally. She joins Nuala to talk about how it felt to be on the list, and why she says sport is the reason she’s still here today.
And we discuss whether the police, prosecutors and lawyers should have access to the therapy records of rape and sexual assault victims. We hear from Nogah Ofer from the Centre for Women’s Justice and the testimony of one woman’s experience of the system.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern. Producer:Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Steve Greenwood
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, this is Nulem O'Goveran and you're listening to the Woman's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour. How are you feeling this morning? |
| 0:13.3 | Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed? Or on your third cup of coffee? |
| 0:17.4 | Trying to stave off the tiredness? Well, if it's the latter, maybe you need to plan a nap. |
| 0:23.6 | The research out today shows it is good for us and it helps our brain. |
| 0:27.7 | We do also know between pregnancy, new motherhood, periods, |
| 0:32.0 | the perimenopause, the menopause. There are many times that women could do with a little lie down, |
| 0:37.8 | but they don't often get it. We will hear the latest signs, but I also want to hear from you |
| 0:43.2 | how and where have you napped? Share your most creative strategy with your fellow listeners |
| 0:49.5 | about the most unusual place, perhaps, that you've taken 40 wings. |
| 0:53.5 | And also, do you feel that there's a stigma attached to napping? |
| 0:57.8 | Have you ever done it in the workplace, for example, and how was that received? |
| 1:02.0 | Or maybe you tried to hide it? Or maybe you're working from home, and this has opened up a whole |
| 1:08.2 | new napping environment. Well, you can text the programme. That number is 84844, |
| 1:13.4 | or you can get us on social media. That's app BBC Woman's Hour or email us through our website. |
| 1:18.9 | And if you'd like to leave a voice note, that number is 03700, 1004444, |
| 1:24.6 | also the number for WhatsApp. So we'll get into that in just a minute. Also today, |
| 1:29.6 | we begin a new series on India looking at how women fare in the most populated country in the world. |
| 1:35.4 | Yes, it's overtaken China. We also want to follow up on access to victims' |
| 1:40.3 | therapy records in rape prosecutions. We talked a little about it yesterday, |
| 1:46.0 | but we want to go in more detail today. And we'll also look at where the Windrush |
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