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Woman's Hour

Review into alleged abuse in British Gymnastics

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

An interim report into British Gymnastics, published this week, revealed 1,500 complaints between 2015 and 2020, including 39 claims passed to police. Jessica Creighton is joined by former gymnast, Claire Heafford and Sarah Moore, one of the lawyers working on the case. It took a year for Maria Beatrice Giovanardi to convince the Oxford Dictionary of English to not only change their definition of 'woman' but to re-examine the synonyms for 'woman' in their thesaurus, and amend the contents. Maria has now turned her attentions to Treccani, a leading online Italian dictionary, in a bid to get them to do the same thing. She tells us how this part of her campaign is progressing and why language matters. A new report out today from the Institute of Fiscal Studies suggests that women in heterosexual couples are much more likely than men to give up their jobs, or cut their hours, after becoming parents. And it shows that this happens even if the woman earns more than her male partner. Alison Andrew, Senior Research Economist at the IFS joins me now to discuss. The first UK Clinical Guideline for the use of vaginal pessaries in pelvic organ prolapse was launched last week. The multidisciplinary Guideline Group included 3 pessary users who co-developed the resource. Being written against the background of the Baroness Cumberlege report ‘First Do No Harm’ from July 2020, it aims to help women learn, understand and be empowered to ask about whether a pessary is the right option for them. Presenter: Jessica Creighton Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Claire Heafford Interviewed Guest: Sarah Moore Interviewed Guest: Maria Beatrice Giovanardi Interviewed Guest: Alison Andrew Interviewed Guest: Kate Lough Interviewed Guest: Kath Sansom

Transcript

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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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