Weekend Woman’s Hour: Mona Eltahawy; Scarlett Moffatt; Female astronauts

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Egyptian-American writer and activist Mona Eltahawy believes women should start actively defying and disrupting the patriarchy now - with force if necessary. Mona explains why she wrote her new book ‘The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls’ with enough 'rage to fuel a rocket.'

Tech entrepreneur, Tabitha Goldstaub who chairs the UK's AI Council and Carly Kind, director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, discuss concerns that because Artificial Intelligence algorithms are created from the data we give it, biases in society will be replicated and even amplified by it in the future.

TV presenter Jan Leeming and dating expert Charly Lester share tips and advice on how to go about dating in your late 60’s.

Scarlett Moffatt, famous for Gogglebox and winning I'm A Celebrity, has just become an ambassador for the Samaritans. She talks about how reality television has affected her mental health, and exchanges experiences with Montana Brown who appeared on Love Island.

The last time the European Space Agency recruited for their Class of 2009, only 16% of applications came from women. One of the women chosen, Samantha Cristoforetti, talks about the ESA's latest recruitment drive and what skills are needed to make it in space.

Iranian artist Mentrix talks about her new single and video '99 Names of God', a well-known Muslim chant, traditionally sung by men during Ramadan. Mentrix explains the ideas behind the accompanying video which has generated a lot of criticism, with some people describing it as offensive, disrespectful and sinful.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Paula McFarlane Editor: Kirsty Starkey

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0:41.0	Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour. podcasts. about something new, empowered, taking control, unlike you're having a good old gossip with
0:56.1	your best mate, then you're in the right place.
0:59.5	In the next hour we have Tech entrepreneur Tabitha Gold Stub who chairs the UK's AI Council and
1:05.2	Carly Kind the director of the Ada Lovelace Institute who talk about the role
1:10.4	AI plays in how we all work live and play. We hear from Montana Brown who appeared
1:16.2	on Love Island and Scarlet Moffat, famous for Gogglebox and winning I'm a Celebrity,
1:21.5	Scarlet talks about how reality television has affected her mental health and explains how she deals with online abuse.
1:28.0	I actually take a step back and I think, how sad is this person feeling or how bad is their life going that they're
1:35.0	projecting this much hate on to other people.
1:37.8	So I actually now message the trolls and give them the number for Samaritans or I ask if the okay they're not well in themselves and I think they also need help.
1:47.0	And a total of 65 women have been into space compared with 501 men. During a break from training for a
1:55.8	2022 mission to the International Space Station, Samantha Christopheretti tells us
2:01.4	about the skills needed to make it in space.
2:04.6	But first, we need to dismantle the patriarchy is a familiar rallying cry heard many times on this
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