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Woman's Hour

Nicole Lecky in Superhoe at the Royal Court

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sasha Clayton is 24 and lives in Plaistow with her mum, step-dad and little sister. She spends most of her time scrolling through social media alone in her room. Sasha wants to singer - but she needs money to make that dream come true. Superhoe is a new play at the Royal Court Theatre in London exploring Sasha’s life, and the dangers that lie on social media for vulnerable young women. Nicole Lecky is the writer and stars in Superhoe. She discusses the play and all that she learnt whilst putting it together.

New research from Carers UK shows that 6% of women have quit their jobs in order to care for a loved one, with a further 5% having reduced their hours. So what can employers do to improve things for carers? And is it fair to expect even small businesses to comply?

It’s 50 years since ‘In Place of Strife’, the late Labour politician Barbara Castle’s attempt to reform the trade unions. In an era of powerful unions, who would negotiate over beer and sandwiches at No 10 Downing Street, her plan failed. But within a year she succeeded in driving through the Equal Pay Act and in 1975 she reformed family allowances to “take money out of the husband's pocket on the Friday and put it into the wife's purse on the following Tuesday”. We discuss how Castle fought for union reform, what she learnt from it and her legacy with biographer, Anne Perkins and journalist, Helen Lewis.

Lewes FC, the only football club to pay their men and women teams equally, have asked the Football Association for an increase in the Women’s FA Cup prize fund. The FA recognises a significant disparity but say they’re doing what they can to make progress. Sports Writer, Anna Kessel and Charlie Dobres from Lewes Football Club share their thoughts.

There is no single 'autism test'. But as diagnosis can lead to your child getting the right support. what do you do if you think that your child is autistic? When can you tell and where can you go for help? Jane speaks to Emma Gill who has a 4-year old daughter who has been diagnosed with autism and Dr Sarah Brook, clinical lead at the National Autistic Society’s Loma Wing.

Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Madeleine Starr Interviewed Guest: Alan Beazley Interviewed Guest: Anne Perkins Interviewed Guest: Ayesha Hazarika Interviewed Guest: Anna Kessel Interviewed Guest: Charlie Dobres Interviewed Guest: Nicole Lecky Photographer: Helen Murray Interviewed Guest: Emma Gill Interviewed Guest: Dr Sarah Lister Brook

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

0:04.6

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

0:08.4

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0:20.4

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0:29.7

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0:36.0

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0:38.0

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0:41.0

Hi this is Jane Garvey and you have downloaded The Women's Out Podcast.

0:44.4

It is the 5th of February 2019 in Podcast Land.

0:48.4

And on the pod today we'll discuss caring and a report from Carers UK will also have a word about the phenomenal Barbara

0:55.7

Castle it's now 50 years since her white paper on trade union reform in place of

1:01.5

strife if you think that sounds dull you couldn't be more wrong.

1:04.4

It's something well worth discussing and we did so on the podcast today.

1:08.0

We also have a chat about the prize money for women in the F.A. Cup.

1:13.5

Nikal Lecky is on discussing her one woman play, Super Ho, and what it's like to have an autistic

1:19.9

child and when you should get a diagnosis of autism if indeed that's appropriate

1:25.4

and what that diagnosis might mean. That's all on this podcast but we start

1:30.3

with the story that made the front page of today's Daily Mirror, the headline

1:34.5

600 a day quit job to care for loved one.

1:38.2

And this is based on new research from Carers UK, which shows that 6% of women have stopped working outside the home and 5% have cut

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