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🗓️ 11 February 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Laura Kyrke-Smith MP wants more care and support for new mothers struggling with their mental health. Her own friend died by suicide just 10 weeks after giving birth and she recently led a debate in parliament on the subject. She joins Nuala McGovern to talk about the changes she wants to see, along with perinatal psychologist Dr Alain Gregoire from the Maternal Mental Health Alliance.
What does the word 'ambition' mean to you? A study from the University of California has shown women may be put off applying for jobs when words such as 'ambition' or 'drive' appear in the ad, as they can feel intimidated. Nuala talks to Tiffanie Darke, the former CEO of female unemployment charity Smart Works, about women’s relationship to ambition and what they’re really looking for in a job. Wafa al Mustafa has been searching for her father for 13 years, ever since he was arrested at their home in Damascus in 2013. She has become the face of the campaign by hundreds of Syrian families to find their loved ones who have disappeared. She tells us how her search is going, and the difference the fall of Assad’s regime has made. Performance poet Caitlin O'Ryan's poem about women walking home has struck a chord with thousands of people online. She joins us to perform At What Point and share what made her want to get up on stage at a poetry open mic night for the first time a couple of years ago. What happens when your child with special educational needs or disabilities, otherwise known as SEND, gets older? We hear from Laura Kerr from People First Dorset, a charity which aims to tackle loneliness amongst young people with learning disabilities, and Jo White, whose 17-year-old son Leon is autistic and non-verbal and has just left education. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Sarah Jane Griffiths
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0:00.0 | Eleven climbers appeared to have died on the world's second highest mountain K2. |
0:06.0 | It was one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history. |
0:10.0 | Rock falls, avalanches. |
0:11.0 | Huge pieces of ice. All are big enough to kill you. |
0:14.0 | He just flew out into Devoid and he was gone. |
0:17.0 | How did it all go so wrong? |
0:19.0 | And is it really worth risking death to feel alive? |
0:21.6 | Why would somebody pay to go to a place called the death cell on a vacation? |
0:26.6 | Extreme. Peak Danger. With me, Natalia Melman Petrazella. Listen to the full series now. First, on BBC Sounds. |
0:36.6 | Music, radio, podcasts. |
0:40.7 | Hello, this is Neula McGovern, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. |
0:45.9 | Hello, and welcome to the programme. |
0:48.2 | The MP, Laura Kirksmith, called a debate on maternal mental health following the death of her close friend Sophie. |
0:55.2 | In a minute, we're going to hear what she thinks needs to change. |
0:58.5 | Also today, Wafa Mustafa, the Syrian activist, who returned home, she tried to find her |
1:04.4 | father who has been missing for over a decade. |
1:07.3 | We'll speak to her about what she found. |
1:09.6 | Also, there is a study in today's paper that says job adverts which use the words ambition and drive may deter women from applying. |
1:19.2 | When researchers removed so-called masculine terms from an advert, they found the proportion of women applying increased by 4%. |
1:26.9 | So we'll talk about the word ambition and ambitious and what it means for women. |
1:32.0 | I want to know what is your relationship to those words. |
1:35.4 | Would you call yourself ambitious? |
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