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Woman's Hour

#NunsToo, Onlyness, Black female professors

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Pope Francis has for the first time publicly acknowledged the scandal of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns. Rocio Figueroa, a theologian and lecturer and Doris Reisinger Wagner tell us their experience in a discussion with Sister Sharlet Wagner, a sister of the Holy Cross and the current President of The Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the United States.

The Football Association should increase the Women’s FA Cup Prize Fund according to Charlie Dobres from Lewes FC, the only football club to pay their men and women teams equally. He's joined by sports writer Anna Kessel to tell us why.

We discuss Onlyness – when you’re the only person with a certain characteristic, perspective or life experience in a group – usually a work setting. Chloe Davies Executive Officer at UK Black Pride and Chloe Chambraud Gender Equality Director at the Prince’s Responsible Business Network discuss.

The writer Lucy-Anne Holmes tells us about her book Don’t Hold My Head Down where she explores her sexuality and looks at improving her sex life.

Southeastern Trains wants more women to become train drivers. It’s launched a campaign to get 40% of applicants to be women by 2021. We hear from their Services Director, Ellie Burrows and from Kelly-Joe Ballard who has been a train driver for two years.

Bullying and stereotyping of black female academics is stopping them from progressing at UK Universities according to a new report. We hear from Gina Higginbottom an emeritus professor of Ethnicity and Community Health at the University of Nottingham and Dr Nicola Rollock a reader in Equity and Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, who carried out the research.

Catherine Simpson on her memoir, Once I Had a Little Sister - about suicide, loss and how it felt to come from a family who never spoke about their feelings.

Presented by Jane Garvey Produced by Rabeka Nurmahomed Edited by Jane Thurlow

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Hi, good afternoon.

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Welcome to the weekend edition of Womensah.

0:38.0

And this week, we mark the fact that for the first time,

0:41.0

the Catholic Church has acknowledged that priests have abused nuns.

0:45.8

We'll discuss the concept of onlyness and you can hear from Lucy Anne Holmes, the woman who

0:51.3

founded the No More Page 3 campaign, about exploring her sexuality

0:56.0

and her sense of self.

0:57.7

I didn't come out of the room hating my bottom.

1:00.6

I wasn't there as a toddler moaning about you know the shape of my

1:03.7

thighs I've learned this I've got this from somewhere so I started yes I started to

1:07.8

really think you know how that had developed Lucy Ann Holmes more from her later in the program.

1:14.4

You can hear too from the author Catherine Simpson, who will discuss her memoir, When I Had

1:19.2

a Little Sister, which is about her sister Tricia and her suicide,

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