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Woman's Hour

Netball, Ashling Murphy, Adult Literacy, Universities & NDAs

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Yesterday on Woman's Hour we talked about the outpouring of grief in Ireland and beyond about the murder of Ashling Murphy. Today we are looking at solutions to ending violence against women. Sarah Benson, CEO Women's Aid Ireland joins Chloe. Universities are being called on to end the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements to silence complainants in sexual harassment cases by signing up to a new pledge today. Higher Education Minister Michelle Donelan MP joins Chloe to discuss her concerns that some establishments are also using the legally-binding contracts to deal with other problems such as abuse, and other forms of misconduct which stops the victims from speaking out and protects the reputations of perpetrators. Nearly seven million adults in the UK have very poor literacy skills – many of whom are too ashamed or embarrassed to ask for help. What impact can struggling to read and write have on a women’s life long-term? Ginny Williams-Ellis is the CEO of Ready Easy UK, a charity offering free one-to-one reading coaching. Sarah Todd used Read Easy back in 2015. Has sharing the realities of parenting gone too far? Journalist Rose Stokes is pregnant and has been getting loads of horror stories of birth and parenting from friends, family and strangers. We talk to her, and psychotherapist Anna Mathur. Former England Netball captain Ama Agbeze on the Vitality Roses defence of their Commonwealth title later this year. Tonight they take on World number one's Australia in London in the annual Quad series. We'll look how that win in 2018 developed the elite game in England. Presenter: Chloe Tilley Producer: Lucinda Montefiore Picture credit: Steven Paston/PA Wire

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.2

Hello, I'm Chloe Tilly, welcome to Woman's Air from BBC Radio 4.

0:09.4

Good morning, hello, welcome to the programme.

0:12.0

Now today, Ashling Murphy, the 23-year-old woman,

0:14.8

murdered whilst running along a riverbank in Ireland,

0:17.4

will be laid to rest.

0:19.1

Yesterday here on Woman's Air, we talked about the outpouring of grief

0:22.5

in Ireland and beyond.

0:24.3

Today, we're looking at the solutions

0:26.2

to ending violence against women.

0:28.6

Well, it comes as peers in the UK House of Lords

0:31.2

voted to make misogyny a hate crime

0:33.6

as part of the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill

0:36.6

therefore defeating the government.

0:38.9

Meanwhile, the government is also calling on universities

0:41.2

this morning to end the use of non-disclosure agreements

0:44.3

to silence victims in sexual harassment and misconduct cases.

0:48.6

They aren't putting it into law,

0:50.2

but the Higher Education Minister Michelle Donnellan tells me

0:53.2

she believes it's a moral contract between universities

0:56.8

and students. You'll hear more on that later in the programme.

1:00.0

Also, a parent's too willing to share the realities of life

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