Stormont Women, A Friend's Death, Mixed-Weight Dating

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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You might have seen a striking picture this week of the two top women in Northern Ireland facing four men in suits. The women are the First Minister, Arlene Foster from the DUP and Deputy First Minister, Michelle O’Neill from Sinn Fein. The new Assembly has more female politicians that ever, so what does this say about how Northern Ireland is changing?

New books and apps help you track your periods and find out when you're on top form and when you're not. But it is true that we can work our life around your hormones if we understand our cycle? Jenni's joined by Dr Emma Ross, Head of Physiology at the English Institute of Sport and Maisie Hill, author of Period Power.

Is mourning a friend different from mourning for someone in the family? You're expected to be very sad when a family member dies but grieving for a friend can be seen as ‘too much’. It can also be complicated, especially if you knew them in a different way to how their family did. When friends of our own age die it can bring up all sorts of tricky emotions. Sue Elliott-Nicholls, who knows what it's like to grieve for friends and family, reports.

‘Mixed-weight dating’ is a term used to describe a couple with a noticeable difference in body size or shape. Some people see it as a straight-forward description of the couple but others say the phrase is offensive. Steph Yeboah is a plus-size and body positive lifestyle blogger. Ebony Douglas is the CEO of her own marketing and PR agency - and has been in a relationship like this for three years.

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0:42.0	Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Women's
0:44.6	our podcast on the 15th of January. Good morning. Suddenly everybody's talking
0:51.9	about menstruation and there are books and apps to help you track
0:56.2	and interpret your cycle. What's the evidence that better understanding can unleash period power. The experience of grief, how different is
1:07.3	grieving for a friend from grieving for a member of the family and a new term
1:12.3	for you mixed weight dating. What's the
1:16.2	significance of words that describe a couple where one is really big and
1:20.4	the other one usually man is not.
1:25.0	Now it was on Saturday that Northern Ireland's Stormont Assembly finally was up and running again
1:30.0	after three years of there being no devolved parliament. And a rather
1:35.1	striking photograph has appeared in the news of the two leading women in
1:39.6	Northern Ireland facing four men across a conference table. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Secretary of State
1:46.5	Julian Smith, the Irish Tieshik, Leo Vardker and his deputy Simon Covny. And of course the two women are Northern Ireland's first minister
1:57.2	the DUP's Arlene Foster and the deputy first minister
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