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Woman's Hour

Tahmima Anam, Genome Sequencing, Twinnie

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Tahmima Anam is an anthropologist and a novelist. She's a big fan of silence and believes it can been harnessed to challenge sexism and expose bad behaviour. We talk about the pros, cons and ethics of genome sequencing for new-borns. A new pilot will be running shortly, so we speak to Vivienne Parry, Head of Engagement at Genomics England and Rebecca Middleton, who has an inherited brain aneurysm disorder and is a member of the panel representing parents and health care professionals. Do you know what "fexting" is? Do you do it? It's in the headlines because the First Lady of the United States, Jill Biden, has admitted that she 'fexts' with her husband. It means fights over text. So we're asking is it a good way to row? Behavioural psychologist and relationship coach, Jo Hemmings helps us out. In Japan abortion pills are illegal, but that's due to change by the end of the year. However it looks like a woman who's in a relationship will need permission from her male partner before she gets them, plus the cost could be out of reach for many. We speak to women rights campaigner, Kazuko Fukuda, and the BBC's Mariko Oi in Tokyo. And we've got Twinnie, the singer and songwriter from York. She describes her music as country pop, and her new track is called Welcome To The Club.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.2

Hello, I'm Andrea Catawood and welcome to Women's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

0:09.8

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:12.4

Today, what is your response if you hear a sexist joke at work?

0:17.5

Some of us admit that we've laughed along and then kicked ourselves

0:20.6

afterwards. Most of us wish we could think of a lightning quick response

0:24.2

that cuts the joke around to size.

0:26.7

But what about total silence?

0:29.4

Tamina Annam used her training as an anthropologist to study and decode office culture.

0:35.3

She thinks that women often talk too much at work.

0:38.5

We feel we have to be enthusiastic, not a long chip in.

0:42.7

I wonder if any of that resonates.

0:44.6

And instead, she's suggesting that if we said absolutely nothing more often,

0:49.2

it could work wonders.

0:50.5

I'll be talking to her about it later.

0:51.9

I'm really hoping she doesn't stay quiet today.

0:54.5

But also, I'd like to know what you think.

0:57.0

Do you agree that women try too hard to be likable in the workplace

1:01.2

and could shutting up a bit more often be a useful tool?

1:04.4

Or will you get ignored completely?

1:06.6

Maybe your workplace is so equal that this conversation

1:09.7

no longer needs to be had.

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