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🗓️ 5 March 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour, where we see the world through a female lens. |
0:04.3 | A selection of choice cuts from the week just gone for you today. |
0:07.8 | We hear from author Natasha Solomon's, who's giving the Mona Lisa a voice. |
0:11.7 | We have music from Rising Star, Priya Rugu, and Daniel Marin, |
0:15.9 | talking about her experience of life in a gang and how she found her way out. |
0:21.0 | But first, all week we've been covering Ukraine. |
0:24.8 | The number of refugees leaving Ukraine has reached a million. |
0:28.0 | The UNHCR are projecting that over four million refugees may need protection and assistance |
0:33.7 | in countries neighbouring Ukraine. |
0:36.1 | As the conflict continues, we've seen footage of predominantly women and children fleeing |
0:40.6 | the country, but that is just one aspect of this conflict. |
0:44.4 | There are also many women who've stayed in Ukraine and signed up to fight. |
0:49.0 | Back in December, Ukraine's Ministry of Defence expanded the number of women who are eligible |
0:53.3 | for mandatory service in the armed forces. |
0:56.0 | They'll be joining the 57,000 or so women aged 18 to 60 already serving. |
1:01.4 | But is there an appetite for more women to sign up? |
1:04.2 | And what roles are they likely to play? |
1:06.4 | On Monday we heard from Ukrainian MP Leslia Vasylenko, who told us about her new reality |
1:12.3 | of being trained to use an assault rifle to defend her family and her country. |
1:17.3 | There's a lot of technical issues there. |
1:20.2 | So I'm not to cause some storms as I said. |
1:22.8 | It's a bit tricky. The tricky part is that it requires a lot of strength, not to pull |
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