Night Waves - Feminism in 2013
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2013
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Anne McElvoy discusses the state of Feminism in 2013. From women in the boardroom to Twitter trolls; from activism to male violence, via the intersection of class, race and gender and the limits of identity politics. Anne surveys the issues that have dominated Feminist debate in 2013, with Julie Bindel, Caroline Criado-Perez, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Sibylle Rupprecht and Zoe Stavri.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps |
| 0:21.2 | that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream |
| 0:26.1 | van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds. |
| 0:32.1 | This is a download from the BBC. For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three. |
| 0:40.8 | Welcome to Nightwaves. Tonight we're going to be reviewing the year in feminism. |
| 0:45.1 | This has been the year in which Cheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, |
| 0:49.4 | invited women to lean in and held out the promise of more influence and more power if we did so. |
| 0:55.0 | It's also been a year that saw a successful campaign to feature more women on British banknotes, |
| 1:00.0 | and yet in 2013, women involved in that campaign were subjected to abuse and violent threats online. |
| 1:07.0 | At the same time, a study of Fortune 500 companies found female representation on executive boards |
| 1:13.2 | had remained at the same low level for eight consecutive years. |
| 1:17.4 | With me in the studio are a very diverse and sometimes disputatious group of feminist writers and campaigners. |
| 1:24.2 | Caroline Priado Perez, Julie Bindle, Zoe Stavri and Reni Adela Lodge, and were also joined on the line from Geneva by Sibyla Ruprecht, head of the European branch of the organisation Catalyst, which helps place women on some of the world's top company boards. |
| 1:38.8 | I think that every one of my guests today would describe herself as a feminist, But as we may find out as we go, feminism |
| 1:45.4 | remains are very divided and sometimes a divisive idea. Now we've asked you all to bring something |
| 1:50.9 | from 2013 to the table that you'd like to discuss. I want to ask each of you to tell me in just a few |
| 1:57.7 | sentences, an on-air tweet perhaps, your feminist high and low points for 2013. |
| 2:04.0 | Julie Bindle. |
| 2:05.1 | My feminist low point was seeing that the NUS, |
| 2:08.9 | that used to be a radical group, |
| 2:11.7 | had sanctioned the religious fundamentalists |
| 2:13.8 | in calling for men and women to be segregated in universities. |
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