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Woman's Hour

Shirley Williams, New Mums & Jury Service, Flexible Working

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Baroness Shirley Williams has died at the age of 90. She was a titan of British politics and a true trailblazer for women. She appeared on Woman's Hour many times and so we remember her by listening to the archive. We also speak to her good friend, Baroness Julia Neuberger.

What do you do if you've just had a baby and you've been called for jury service? We speak to Zoe Stacey who recently received a letter telling her she had to do jury service but she was still breast feeding. We describes her struggle to be excused.

We're talking about getting back into the swing of things now lockdown is gradually lifting. Are you desperate to get back to normal or are you feeling nervous and anxious? We talk to Dr. Nihara Krause, a consultant clinical psychologist. 

It's 18 years that parents have been able to request flexible working. After that the 'right to request' was made available to everyone, regardless of whether you're a parent or not. So what's been achieved and Is there still a stigma attached to it? We're joined by Sarah Jackson OBE, who's a workplace consultant and visiting professor at Cranfield University School of Management, and Rhonda D'Ambrosio who's used 'right to request' when it started.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:05.4

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett, and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:09.9

Good morning. Are you back up and at them?

0:12.4

With restrictions easing across the UK,

0:14.6

were you one of the people who just couldn't wait to go shopping and pop down the pub yesterday?

0:19.3

Are you finding leaving your bubble a lot more daunting?

0:22.3

Or can you not be bothered?

0:24.4

The pages of my diary, yes, I still use a paper one,

0:27.6

remain rather empty, and I'm feeling quite tired at the thought of filling them like they

0:31.8

once were, and yet we probably know that we do need to socialise again and disrupt some

0:36.9

of those less natural patterns we've developed over the last 12 months.

0:40.8

I don't know, I feel like I've forgotten how to plan,

0:43.4

but I need to get back into the swing of things.

0:45.4

How about you? How can we get back into the swing?

0:48.7

Women, like it or not, are often the planners in chief.

0:52.5

Have you perhaps enjoyed having a break from the social treadmill?

0:55.9

Are you craving a full fat return?

0:57.8

Tell us how you're feeling today.

0:59.4

If you're limbering back up to get back out there,

1:01.9

if you already have been,

1:03.3

perhaps you've been waiting for this because you need those interactions.

1:07.0

It's a mixed bag of emotions, it seems,

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