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Woman's Hour

Women's Football, Head of Ofcom, The politics of Christmas presents

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

There are big changes afoot for women’s football. Former England Lioness Karen Carney published a review into the women’s domestic game over the summer and the Government has just announced that it will back all the findings from her report. That includes making the top two tiers professional and giving the sport a dedicated broadcast slot. Baroness Sue Campbell, director of women's football at the Football Association, discusses their decision.

The head of Ofcom, Dame Melanie Dawes, talks about her plans to make tech companies stop children accessing online pornography in her first broadcast interview on the subject. Under the new Online Safety Act, which came into effect last month, the regulator has been tasked with coming up with age verification measures. Latest research shows that the average age at which children first see online pornography is 13 - although nearly a quarter come across it by age 11 and one in 10 as young as nine. By 18, 79% have encountered violent pornography depicting coercive, degrading or pain-inducing sex acts.

A report out today details for the first time the views of the bereaved families of women killed by men. A woman is killed by a man on average every three days in the UK and the charity Killed Women is campaigning to end this and improve the experiences for families forced to deal with it. The director of Killed Women, Anna Ryder, joins Krupa Padhy to discuss the report’s findings ahead of a planned protest outside Parliament.

Now it's only 20 sleeps until Christmas, and for many of you that might mean running around the shops buying all your Christmas presents. But one woman who is bucking this trend is the writer and journalist Nell Frizzell, who says that her family Christmases have improved since they stopped buying one another gifts. Nell and Ellie Gibson, comedian and one half of the Scummy Mummies who IS a big fan of gifting every festive season discuss.

Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Kirsty Starkey

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0:34.8

Hello, this is Kruppaparty and you're listening to the Women's Hour Podcast.

0:39.2

Hello and thank you for being with us.

0:42.3

It's early December and you might be having a browse in the shops or indeed online for Christmas

0:47.1

gifts. We want your comments on the politics of presies. How do you navigate

0:52.4

giving presents? Who do you give presents too? The whole family, teachers, in my household, it's children only, and even then it's something they want, something they need, something to wear and something to read.

1:05.0

Maybe you opt for a secret Santa approach or you might have your eye out for a bargain all year round.

1:10.0

Or you might be like the journalist now Frisil who will share with me why she no longer gives

1:15.6

presence. 84844 is our text number over on social media. We are on the handle at BBC

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1:24.9

over on WhatsApp we are on the number 03 700,100, 444. And there are a couple of

1:31.9

overarching themes running through this morning show reform and accountability.

1:37.0

The UK government says it will back all the recommendations in the Women's Football review led by the former England midfielder

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