Rape in war, Single-sex spaces, No-fault divorce

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Reports are coming through that Russian soldiers have raped women in Ukraine. There are reports that women have been raped in front of their children, and soldiers have filmed what they're doing. We hear the latest from BBC correspondent Emma Vardy, and discuss why rape in war happens, justice and trauma with Dr Jelke Boesten, Professor of Gender and Development at King's College London. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has now given guidance about single-sex spaces. This is for spaces like toilets, prisons and changing rooms. We talk to Baroness Kishwer Falkner, chair of the EHRC. David Gauke, who used to be Secretary of State for Justice, comes on the programme to talk about the new divorce system. When he was in post he thought the system was making a difficult situation worse. He said that the law should allow people to move on constructively when divorce is inevitable, and that this would really help children. A new book called Lessons in Chemistry follows the rise of an unconventional TV cook called Elizabeth Zott. Set in1960s America, her career as a chemist takes a detour when she becomes the star of a much-loved TV cooking show. She's a cross between Julia Childs and Marie Curie, and what she says dares her female TV viewers to reconsider not just the dinner menu, but their place in the world. We speak to the author, Bonnie Garmus.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.3	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's R from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.3	Good morning and welcome to the programme.
0:12.7	Today, the eyes and ears of the world will be on Ukraine's president Zelensky as he prepares
0:17.5	to address the United Nations Security Council for the first time, as he says Russian forces
0:22.8	are trying to hide the traces of war crimes.
0:26.1	This is after President Zelensky claims more than 300 people were killed and tortured
0:30.8	in Butcher, Nick Heath.
0:33.1	President Biden has called Putin a war criminal and is part of the growing group of world leaders
0:37.6	calling for the Russian leader to fit face trial over the incidents.
0:41.7	Well, today we're going to zoom in on the women of Ukraine and how rape is being used as
0:46.7	the ultimate tool of subjugation.
0:49.4	After a call from Baroness Hellich, a conservative peer who came to the UK as a refugee from the
0:54.2	Bosnian War in the 90s, for an independent international body to be set up to investigate reports
1:00.1	of rape and sexual assault in Ukraine.
1:03.7	Also, on today's programme, you will hear from the chair of the Equality and Human Rights
1:08.1	Commission who has just published guidance clarifying that trans people can be legally
1:12.7	banned from using single sex spaces in the UK such as refuges, toilets, shops, hospitals
1:19.4	and sports clubs if there is sufficiently good reason.
1:23.7	You will hear more detail on that shortly and then feel free as always to get in touch
1:28.1	if you think this clarifies the matter.
1:30.4	Had you been feeling confused or perhaps concerned about this issue or maybe it hadn't
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