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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Period Inequality, Dr Katriona O’Sullivan, Electropop duo Let’s Eat Grandma

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A recent survey of a thousand teenage girls has found that nearly half of them have struggled to access products at school. On Sunday a Period Parade will make its way through London to call for continued support to combat period inequality and shame. We hear from Emily Wilson - the International chief executive of I Rise, a period-equality charity.

Dr. Katriona O’Sullivan grew up as one of five children living in dire poverty, surrounded by addiction. She is now an award winning lecturer, whose work explores barrier to education. She tells us about her extraordinary life story, as told in her memoir ‘Poor’ and to explain how she triumphed through sheer determination.

As the Online Safety Bill progresses through the House of Lords, the former culture secretary Baroness Morgan of Cotes has tabled an amendment to the Bill calling for a Violence Against Women and Girls Code of Practice. She tells us why she believes a code is desperately needed to specifically address the harms to women and girls.

Sales of new petrol and diesel cars in the UK will end by 2030, but women are less likely than men to consider buying an electric vehicle, and the gap seems to be widening. Erin Baker, Editorial Director from AutoTrader and Beth Morley, a mobility and human insights manager from Cenex, discuss.

Let’s Eat Grandma are an electro-pop duo composed of best friends Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth. They tell us about their friendship since the age of four and perform ‘Two Ribbons from their latest album.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:04.4

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.4

Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour.

0:13.2

This is where you get the highlights from the weeks so you don't feel like you missed

0:16.4

out.

0:17.4

It's my absolute pleasure.

0:18.9

Coming up on the programme, Dr Katrina O'Sullivan is an award-winning lecturer whose work explores

0:24.5

barriers to education.

0:26.4

She tells us about growing up in poverty with a mother who loved drugs more than her.

0:31.3

When she did die, what died with her was hope.

0:35.3

That's seven-year-old girl, always hope that one day that her man would love her.

0:39.4

And so when my man did die, it was really hard to let go of that and that's taken time

0:44.5

to restore.

0:46.2

Baroness Nikki Morgan tells us why she wants an amendment to the online safety bill calling

0:51.1

for a violence against women and girls code of practice.

0:54.4

Plus, we look at some of the reasons why women are less likely to buy an electric vehicle

0:59.2

compared to men.

1:00.4

Women travelled more journeys overall and they're shorter.

1:03.4

So electric vehicles would be great for women because that lower range is better.

1:07.5

But actually, those journeys can also be taken by walking on bus.

1:11.6

So it may be that a lot of women when they're making those environmentally friendly choices

1:15.4

are going that one step further and making their choice to get the bus or to walk instead.

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