Men and stopping sexist behaviour, Beauty Salons close in Afghanistan, Chief Midwife
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
What role should men play in stopping sexist behaviour? Several campaigns have aimed to tackle this, the most recent being the Mayor of London’s Maaate initiative. To discuss Nuala is joined by Karen Whybro who is a Woman’s Safety Consultant and Graham Goulden, the former Chief Inspector at Police Scotland, and who now offers training to organisations to improve team culture.
The play, Beneatha's place, currently running at the Young Vic, shows the main character Beneatha in two different periods of her life. First, in 1959, as a young black activist. Then 50 years later, as a renowned Dean of an American university. With Nuala to talk about the play is Cherrelle Skeete who plays Beneatha and Nicola Rollock, Professor of Social Policy and Race at King's College London who worked as a cultural consultant to the play.
Earlier this month the Taliban ordered the closure of women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan. Faranak Amidi speaks to Shekiba Habib from BBC Pashto and Aaliya Farzan from BBC Dari about this latest restriction.
The International Confederation of Midwives has appointed the world’s first ever Chief Midwife. Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent joins Nuala to talk about the challenges midwives face across the world, and how she hopes to combat them.
The podcast The Girlfriends follows a group of women coming together to investigate their ex-boyfriend. It begins in 1989 when a man named Bob Bierenbaum moved to Las Vegas. When a group of his ex-girlfriends discover that his wife, Gail Katz, went missing and is presumed dead, they go from dating him to investigating him. Almost 30 years later, Carole Fisher, one of the women who dated Bob, joins Nuala to discuss how she finally got justice for Gail.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Emma Pearce
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, this is Nulam Agauverin and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour. |
| 0:12.2 | Well a question for you this morning. |
| 0:14.2 | What role can and should men play in calling out and stopping sexist comments and actions? |
| 0:22.3 | You can text the program that number is 84844 on social media or at BBC Woman's Hour |
| 0:27.5 | or you can email us through our website. |
| 0:29.9 | If you'd like to leave a WhatsApp message or a voice note, that number is 0370014444. |
| 0:36.6 | So more on that in a moment. |
| 0:38.6 | But this week I have been an avid theater goer and last night was at the Young Vic Theatre in London. |
| 0:46.0 | I saw Benitez place, a story of a young black woman moving between pre-independence Nigeria |
| 0:52.6 | and the United States over five decades and encountering racism but also trying to affect |
| 0:59.1 | social change through universities. |
| 1:01.9 | Though the play was written 10 years ago, the issues it raises are just as resonant today |
| 1:06.6 | from the number of black female academics to positive discrimination and the place of critical |
| 1:12.4 | race theory. I'll be speaking to Sherelle Ski too, plays Benitez and Professor Nicola Rolach. |
| 1:18.8 | I've also been listening to a podcast, it's called The Girl Friends and it's a true crime series. |
| 1:23.8 | We're going to be hearing from Carol Fisher who is on the podcast and help solve a murder |
| 1:28.4 | by bringing Girlfriends of an ex-boyfriend together. Also on Woman's Hour, we'll hear from the first |
| 1:35.2 | Ever Chief Midwife, Professor Jacqueline Dunkley Bent. Now she has the enormous task of trying |
| 1:41.2 | to provide a midwife for every childbearing woman in over 100 countries worldwide. We'll hear |
| 1:48.0 | how she plans to do that and to Afghanistan beauty salons are closing there this week. We're |
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