Weekend Woman's Hour - Gracie Spinks’s parents, Gatekeeping your perfume, Child-free women at work
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
23-year-old Gracie Spinks was killed by a man who she had reported to the police for stalking her. The inquest into her death reported several failures by Derbyshire Police in how her case was handled. Now, her parents, Richard Spinks and Alison Ward, are campaigning for Gracie’s Law, which would ensure better training for police officers around stalking, and the appointment of independent stalking advocates. They tell us about Gracie and the changes they want to be made in her memory.
Have you got a signature scent – and would you share where you got it from? Whether you are ‘gatekeeping’ your perfume or keen to spread the word about your favourite scent, smell is one of the most evocative and emotive of our senses. We talk all things fragrance with The Guardian's beauty editor, Sali Hughes, and Experimental Perfume Club’s Roshni Dhanjee - why we want to smell unique, gifting perfume, and why smell is so connected to our emotions and identity.
‘There is an expectation that women like me – without children - will pick up the slack so the working mums can have time off with their families’. Those are the words of Sam Walsh who has worked every Boxing Day for the last 20 years. She decided to quit her retail job in October because she resented having to work over the Xmas period. Sam, who runs The Non Mum Network Facebook group and website, says working parents shouldn’t be given priority.
Kelly Simmons has recently left the Football Association after 32 years with the organisation. Best known for her time as Director of the Women’s Professional Game, Kelly joins Jessica Creighton to discuss her long career and the future of the Women’s Super League, which she helped to launch and transform.
Elle and The Pocket Belles describe themselves as an all-girl retro band. They are a vocal harmony group who have been singing together for more than a decade. They’ll be creating more Christmas cheer for us.
Presenter: Jessica Creighton Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Rebecca Myatt
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| 0:45.0 | Hello, I'm Jessica Krieton, welcome to the Woman's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour, where we bring you some of the best bits from the week just gone. |
| 0:54.6 | On the program today, we hear from the parents of Gracie Spinks, who was stabbed to death by a |
| 0:59.1 | former colleague who had stalked her. |
| 1:01.6 | Her parents tell us about their campaign called Gracie's Law. |
| 1:05.0 | We'll discuss why gatekeeping your perfume is a new trend on Tik-Toc. |
| 1:09.4 | We'd also hear from the woman who has quit her job in retail after working every boxing day for the last 20 years. |
| 1:16.0 | She doesn't have children and felt she was always having to cover for moms who wanted time off. |
| 1:21.0 | Obviously we understand, you know, moms would like to have the school holidays of, |
| 1:25.2 | particularly like in August, you know. |
| 1:27.1 | So we would try and make it as fair as possible, but I did always feel like there was this |
| 1:30.6 | kind of this pressure to make sure the moms had had priority in a |
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