SIM Ep 476 IWD 2021 #1: Harriet Wistrich and the fight for justice for women

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🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Feminist lawyer, fierce campaigner for women’s rights, founder of the Centre For Women’s Justice, a charity and public interest law firm holding the state to account for violence against women and girls, and co-founder of campaigning organisation Justice For Women, Harriet Wistrich is a bonafide hero. In the first of our six long-form interviews with excellent women to celebrate International Women’s Day 2021, Harriet chats to Mickey about the dire stats around rape prosecutions, taking the Crown Prosecution Service to court, women who kill their abusers and the misogyny rife throughout the criminal justice system in England and Wales. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of The Standard Issue Podcast is sponsored by AJ Bell Money Matters,
0:04.6	helping women to feel good investing. No doubt you'll have heard us talk about the gender pay gap,
0:09.2	but did you note there's also a gender investment gap in the UK of £1.65 trillion.
0:16.9	So, after spending our whole working lives worse off the men through lack of pensions,
0:21.6	savings and investments, we're more likely to be worse off in retirement too. AJ Bell think
0:26.4	women need to talk more openly about money. It shouldn't be embarrassing or confusing and I agree.
0:31.2	The AJ Bell Money Matters campaign was founded in 2021 and offers a range of educational material,
0:37.3	including in-person events, podcasts, articles and more to help get women talking about money.
0:43.2	The AJ Bell Money Matters podcast has all the news, information and inspiring interviews you need
0:48.8	to take control of your financial future. Listen to it wherever you found this podcast. AJ Bell
0:53.9	Money Matters helping women to feel good investing.
1:07.9	Standard Issue for all women. Hello, hello, Mickey here. A very happy International Women's Day 2021
1:15.6	to you all. A whole day for women, wowsers. I hope you've got something really exciting planned.
1:22.6	I might put actual clothes on instead of the steadily more skanky tracksuit pajamas I've been
1:27.2	wearing day in, day out. I'm certainly not going to be doing any housework, but I suppose that's
1:32.3	actually not too unusual to be honest. And also, given I'm recording this before, it's actually
1:37.2	a WD in my timeline. Those crazy pipe dreams might not even come true. I am definitely going to
1:44.4	talk a bit of cash at a few women's charities though, including the Centre for Women's Justice,
1:49.2	and I shall tell you for why in a moment. Before that though, a very brief rundown on the International
1:54.4	Women's Day content we have planned for your ears this year, because there is a fresh interview
1:59.3	hitting those ears every day from Monday to Saturday this week. Hannah's been chatting to actress
2:04.9	Katie Wicks about body image and her memoir, Delicacy. More body image as Jen speaks the Laura Hoggins
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