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Woman's Hour

Nadine Dorries, Dame Donna Kinnair, Women and safety, Organised crime, mafia and gender.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Health Minister Nadine Dorries joins Emma to talk about her plans to cut deaths caused by Strep B infection in newborn babies, as well as nurses' pay and the government’s new consultation on a women’s health strategy. The row over the government's proposed one per cent pay rise for NHS staff shows no sign of quietening down - with the attention having moved towards nurses' wages in particular. Strike action has been threatened by nurses' unions over the proposals and the Prime Minister came under fire yesterday about nurses - especially considering the role they have played on the front line fighting the pandemic. 90 per cent of nurses are women. Emma discusses the issue with Dame Donna Kinnear, nurse and chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing.

Today we are thinking of Sarah Everard - the 33 year old woman who went missing walking home to Brixton from a friend's house in Clapham, south London, on March 3. Reclaim The Night are organising a vigil following the disappearance of Sarah Everard. But how have things changed since the original Reclaim the Night march which took place on 12th November 1977? Emma speaks to Al Garthwaite, now a Leeds Councillor for Headingley and Hyde Park, she was one of the original organisers, and to the writer and journalist Joan Smith, whose latest book is called Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists. She has also written a book called Misogynies, and she is on the London Mayor's board about tackling violence against women and girls.

From the Godfather to Goodfellas and The Sopranos, we are fascinated by movies and series about the mafia. But women are often portrayed as symbolic or the ‘sexy wife’. How much power and agency do they actually have? Felia Allum is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Italian at the University of Bath. Her research' Women, crime and culture: transnational organised crime as an equal opportunity industry' is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She joins Emma to tell the stories of women she’s spoken to from the Neapolitan mafia.

Presented by Emma Barnett Producer: Louise Corley

Transcript

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Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensa from BBC. podcasts. old woman who went missing walking home to Brixton from a friend's house in Clapham, South London

0:54.4

on March the 3rd. We still don't know what has happened to her but yesterday the news broke that in the

0:59.5

police search for her human remains were found. Detectives have not yet been able to confirm the identity

1:05.6

of the remains which were discovered in Woodland near Ashford and Kent. It comes after a serving

1:10.6

that police officer was arrested on suspicion of Sarah Everard's

1:14.4

kidnap and murder. To put the spotlight back on to Sarah, what we do know is that

1:20.1

she had started a new job as a digital marketing executive.

1:24.0

She'd moved to London 12 years ago having grown up in Surrey.

1:27.0

Her uncle Doug describes her as a lovely, lovely girl,

1:31.0

saying she's very kind-hearted would always go the extra mile for

1:34.9

friends or anyone in need a description which chimes with the loving messages shared by

1:39.7

her worried and devoted friends her disappearance has sent shock waves through the UK

1:45.0

with many women taking to social media to express their distress, but also to

1:49.4

share their own personal strategies to cope with the fear of attack when they walk alone at night or in the day.

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