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🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:04.9 | Hello, it's Jessica Crichton here. |
0:06.5 | Welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast. |
0:08.7 | Good morning, and welcome to the program. |
0:10.8 | This morning we're talking about language. |
0:12.7 | It took a year for Woman's Rights campaigner, |
0:14.9 | Maria Beatrice Giovonardi, |
0:16.6 | to convince the Oxford Dictionary of English |
0:19.5 | to change what she felt was their offensive definition |
0:22.6 | of woman, that she's now hoping to do the same in Italy |
0:25.6 | and will be telling us why language matters. |
0:28.6 | Also a new report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies |
0:31.4 | suggests that women in heterosexual couples |
0:34.0 | are much more likely than men to give up their jobs |
0:36.4 | after becoming parents, even if the woman is earning more |
0:39.9 | than her male partner. |
0:41.6 | Alison Andrew, senior research economist at the IFS, |
0:45.2 | we'll be joining us a bit later, |
0:46.8 | but we'd like to hear from you as well, our listeners on this. |
0:49.2 | What's your experience? |
0:50.5 | Are you a woman who decided to leave work |
0:52.2 | after becoming a parent, even though you earned more |
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