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Woman's Hour

Mina Smallman, Workplace Fertility Officers, Covid Jabs for kids, Suffragist Lydia Becker

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Mina Smallman, the mother of the murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman is one of the key women who called for Dame Cressida Dick to resign from her position as Metropolitan Commissioner. As negotiations continue on when Dame Cressida will leave, we get Mina’s reaction. Do we need a family planning one as well? Lawyer Natalie Sutherland has become one of Britain’s first fertility officers and Becky Kearns is co-founder of ‘Fertility Matters at Work.’ They talk to us about why more companies should consider appointing one. During lockdown, full-time carer and former history teacher, Joanna Williams sat down at her kitchen table and wrote the biography of 'The Great Miss Lydia Becker.' She thought the world needed to know about the 19th Century Manchester suffragist - beyond the few lines she had found in a text book. Children aged between 5-11 in all four nations of the UK are to be offered a low dose of the Covid vaccine. Dr Elizabeth Mann, an immunologist at the Lydia Becker Institute at the University of Manchester and Naomi Grimley, BBC Global Health Correspondent joins us. Prince Andrew has reached an out of court settlement with Virginia Giuffre, who had accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. He has always denied the allegations and hasn't admitted any liability. Georgina Calvert-Lee, an employment and equality lawyer at McAllister Olivarius and expert on NDAs and MP Jess Phillips, Labour's Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding discuss. One mum in the US was left shocked when she told her nurse one of her twin daughter's names, only to be laughed at for it. She posted a video to her TikTok account which went viral. We talk to SJ Strum, who has a YouTube channel and blog which offers baby naming advice.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.7

Hello, I'm Krupa Bati and welcome to Weekend Women's Hour.

0:08.2

This is where we bring you select standout moments

0:11.0

from the week just gone.

0:12.6

This week, we're here from one of the first

0:14.5

workplace fertility offices in the UK.

0:17.0

And one listener tells us about her book

0:19.1

on a lesser known suffragett.

0:21.3

She did, she traveled all over the country's

0:23.4

addressing meetings and at the beginning,

0:25.0

they were packed out because the idea of going to see

0:28.5

a woman making a speech was such a bizarre thought

0:31.7

to most people and she had a huge audience

0:33.6

that was just to come and see this strange woman.

0:36.2

We also talk about baby names, but first.

0:39.3

Minus Maulman is a former arch-dekon

0:41.9

and the mother of the murdered sisters

0:43.8

Bieber Henry and Nicole Smallman.

0:46.5

They were stabbed to death in a park in Wembley in 2020,

0:50.0

having been enjoying birthday celebrations.

0:52.6

Two met police constables who took photos of the women

0:56.0

and sent mocking messages about them on WhatsApp groups,

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