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Woman's Hour: Waris Dirie; Ada Lovelace Day

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Waris Dirie; Ada Lovelace Day

15/10/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Waris Dirie; Ada Lovelace Day

Supermodel and campaigner Waris Dirie, and celebrating Ada Lovelace on her special day.

Supermodel and campaigner Waris Dirie, practical ways to recover well from illness, a celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, and the latest report on conditions in Holloway Prison.

This year the Women of the Year Campaigning Award goes to campaigner and former supermodel, Waris Dirie. She talks to Anita Anand about her own experiences and the Desert Flower Foundation she started nearly eleven years ago to fight against the female genital mutilation and provide support for women and girls subjected to the practice.

With convalescent homes a thing of the past and people being discharged from hospital faster than ever before how are people supposed to get better after an illness or injury? Why have we decided that the best thing to do, after a health crisis, is 'bounce back' and 'get well soon'?

The Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick talks about the improvements at Holloway women's prison in London, and what more needs to be done to help meet the needs of the very vulnerable women held there.

And we celebrate Ada Lovelace Day which was set up to honour the work of the Victorian mathematician whose work was crucial to the invention of the modern computer and to encourage and celebrate women in science, technology, engineering and maths. Who are the women in STEM now and from history who we should know more about? What are the new initiatives to make information about women in STEM more available?

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