Pretty Privilege, Baby Deaths Report, Thea Gilmore, Victory for rubbish stink woman
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Are you familiar with the phrase ‘pretty privilege’? A new trend on Tik Tok is seeing young women sharing stories about when they first realised good looks can get you far in life. From relationships, to work, and even within the legal system – the association between beauty and talent, social success and health is a real thing. Anita Rani talks about the issue with model Marike Wessels, and Caterina Gentili from the Centre for Appearance Research.
A new report investigating the serious harm or death of babies is calling for midwives, health visitors and social workers to provide more support to fathers. The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel has looked at the lives of 23 babies who were known or suspected to have been seriously harmed or killed by their father, step-father or male carer, with the aim to understand what led the perpetrators to do it, and what could be done to prevent similar incidents. Panel member Mark Gurrey and working NHS midwife in Scotland, Leah Hazard discuss the issues.
Rebecca Currie has won a High Court battle to limit the stench coming from a landfill site near her home which she says was damaging her son’s health. We hear about her campaign and her reaction to the victory
And there’ll be music from Thea Gilmore who talks about her new album Afterlight
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Engineer: Duncan Hannant
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| 0:41.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from podcasts. Pretty Woman. Walking down the street. |
| 0:54.0 | Pretty Woman. |
| 0:56.0 | Kind I'd like to meet |
| 0:58.0 | Pretty Woman. |
| 1:00.0 | So here's a question for you. |
| 1:01.0 | Do you feel pretty? Do you ever look in the mirror and just fancy yourself? |
| 1:06.0 | The reason I'm asking is we would like to talk about pretty privilege today. |
| 1:12.0 | Do you know that you are going to get exactly |
| 1:14.0 | what you want just because of the way you look? Do you recognize your pretty |
| 1:18.4 | privilege or maybe it's the other way around and you've never felt pretty and |
| 1:21.9 | see that others get an advantage |
| 1:23.6 | simply based on how they look and who sets the bar for what's seen as beautiful |
| 1:28.0 | in the first place. We would love to hear from you this morning and can you see it |
| 1:31.8 | happening in your daughters? |
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