Listener Week: Afghanistan, Women and trades, Being Average, Clearing out the attic, Titles
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Alice Bromage served in Afghanistan as a Major and left in 2016. She tells us what's she is hearing from the troops serving on the ground in Afghanistan.
A recent survey revealed that tradespeople are £35,000 better off than university graduates. But only 14.5% of the construction workforce as a whole is female, and that drops to just 2% when it comes to skilled manual trades, according to CITB figures. Emma hears from painter and decorator Barbara Marshfield, plasterer Steph Leese and Fiona Sharp, Social Value Director for Procure Plus.
Clearing out the attic of family belongings - how and when should you do it? Vicki Edmunds and Marion Malcher discuss.
The joy of being average with Sarah Stein Lubrano and author Eleanor Ross.
What is motivating older women to join the Extinction Rebellion protests this week. Protestors Fiona Atkinson and Marion Malcher discuss.
Why do we still use Ms, Mrs, Miss. Dr Amy Erikson, who is a Reader in Feminist History at the University of Cambridge and, Stella Sutcliffe, who has spent the last three years campaigning for organisations and businesses to stop requesting, using and and storing marriage titles through her Campaign “Go Title Free”.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor
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