Working in retail; Sparking a love of nature; Women’s innovation in tech; Women and underpaid state pensions, Evil women
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Non-essential shops reopened in England this week after the second Lockdown - thousands of jobs now hang in the balance. We hear from Joanne Cairns, deputy head of research at USDAW and Catherine Shuttleworth, retail analyst.
The Woman’s Hour Power List recognises the work of 30 inspiring women who are making a positive contribution to the environment and the sustainability of our planet. Beccy Speight, CEO of the RSPB which is the UK’s largest conservation charity and Miranda Lowe, Curator at the Natural History Museum in London talk about their work to spark our interest in the environment and nature.
Two of this year’s TechWomen100 Award winners June Angelides MBE and Rav Bumbra on how to encourage more women and girls to work in the tech industries.
Many women have been underpaid state pension. Steve Webb, partner at Lane, Clark and Peacock and Jasmine Birtles financial expert and director of MoneyMagpie explain.
What makes an evil woman. We hear from Professor of History at Birkbeck and Rhetoric Professor at Gresham College talks about her interest in evil women.
Festive Drinks. Sandra Lawrence from The Cocktail Lovers magazine talks about classic cocktails.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Paula McFarlane Editor: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:41.0 | Hi good afternoon and a warm welcome on what is probably a chilly afternoon to the best of the |
| 0:46.0 | Women's Hour Week. |
| 0:48.0 | What can you expect this week? Well, we'll hear from two women from the Women's Hour Powerlist, Becky Spate of the RSPB, and Miranda Lowe of the Natural History Museum. |
| 0:57.0 | They'll talk about what it takes to spark a lifelong love of nature. |
| 1:02.0 | You can hear two from two of the Tech Women 100 Award winners |
| 1:06.1 | this year and might you be one of the women who has been underpaid her state |
| 1:11.6 | pension you could be a married woman, a divorcee or a widow. It might be you. |
| 1:17.3 | Find out more this afternoon. And evil women. |
| 1:21.5 | Ever since he first plucked that apple from the tree of knowledge, |
| 1:25.0 | I think we have been obsessed with the nature of evil women. |
| 1:30.0 | And every generation, of course, kind of reinvents evil for itself and it reflects really |
| 1:36.7 | our own fears our own anxieties our own fantasies as much as as the actual women themselves. |
| 1:42.8 | That is Professor of History at Birkbeck, Joanna Burke, |
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