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09/03/2016

Toilets and gender equality, Domestic violence against men, Female squash player who competed as a boy

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Toilets and gender equality, Domestic violence against men, Female squash player who competed as a boy

Is the position of women in society reflected in its toilets?

Is the position of women in society reflected in its toilets? Plus the female squash player who competed as a boy, domestic violence against men, and epilepsy in pregnancy.

Professor Clara Greed, a specialist in urban planning, on her belief that women's true position is society is reflected in its toilets and why inequality in their provision remains one of the last frontiers to be conquered.

The story of Maria Toorpakai, Pakistan's top female squash player, and why she competed as a boy until the age of 16. 

After the conviction of Sharon Edwards for murdering her husband, we discuss domestic violence against men with Professor Marianne Hester, Chair in Gender and Violence at Bristol University and Mark Brooks, chair of trustees for the domestic violence charity Mankind. 

Midwife Kim Morley, who specialises in supporting women with epilepsy through pregnancy, on her award as Royal College of Midwives 'mum's Midwife of the Year'. 






Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Anne Peacock.

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