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Woman's Hour: Sylvia Pankhurst and Working Women Today

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18/06/2015

Sylvia Pankhurst and Working Women Today

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Sylvia Pankhurst and Working Women Today

Sylvia Pankhurst and the lives of working women: 1907 and today. Presented by Emma Barnett

Presented by Emma Barnett. Featuring Sylvia Pankhurst and the lives of working women; gender, race and identity; and Lottery funding for women's projects.

Over 100 years after Sylvia Pankhurst interviewed working women about their lives and their double shifts of work and family. Emma Barnett speaks to women in the same industries now. In the first of a new series she speaks to women in a pottery factory, and is joined by professor Krista Cowman of Lincoln University to discuss Pankhurst and her writings on working women.

The case of Rachel Dolezal has caused a huge race row in the US. Dolezal, a civil rights activist, was born to two white parents, but has been presenting herself as black - or "identifying" as black, as she describes it. It has created discussion about how race forms identity, and some seem to have conflated the issue of adopting a different race with the experience of being transgender. Emma Barnett is joined by guests in the studio to discuss gender, race, and identity.

Plus, Ambreen Shah of the Big Lottery Fund on their plans to channel money into projects to help women and girls affected by domestic violence, sexual exploitation, homelessness, substance abuse, and mental ill health.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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