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25/04/2014

New employment rights for surrogate parents

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, New employment rights for surrogate parents

Why 70% of all those who defect from North Korea are women, with Jenni Murray.

Why 70% of all those who defect from North Korea are women. And new rights for parents who have a child using a surrogate mother. Jenni Murray offers the female perspective.

In South Korea a popular game show called' Now on My Way To Meet You' is growing in popularity. It is a part talk, part talent show that features attractive women who fled the North in search of a better life. Nearly 70% of all defectors from North Korea are female. Why?

From next year, those who have become parents through surrogacy will be given employment protection, leave and pay equivalent to maternity rights. These new rights will be a form of adoption leave and means that intended parents can choose which of them get the main leave, the equivalent of maternity leave and which gets the secondary leave, the equivalent of paternity leave. The new UK legislation has become law in the same week that the European Court of Justice has announced its decision that EU law does not give a right to maternity leave to mothers conceiving through surrogacy.

How police mugshots from 1905 can reveal what life was like for women in Dundee working in the textile industry.

Bear Grylls' latest television show is to feature men on a desert island but women too are expert in survival and wilderness skills!

And blues musician Ben Harper has teamed with his mum, Ellen Harper, to record a duet album "Childhood Home." They play live on the programme.

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