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All Things Considered: Women, Faith and Equality

04/03/2018

Women, Faith and Equality

BBC Radio Wales - All Things Considered, Women, Faith and Equality

Ahead of International Women's Day, Roy Jenkins and guests discuss gender equality.

Religious affairs programme. Ahead of International Women's Day, Roy Jenkins and guests discuss gender equality and how religious faith can inform the debate surrounding it.

It is a hundred years since women in the United Kingdom won the right to vote - and then they had to be at least 30 years old and meet minimum property qualifications.

The struggle for equality has been a long one, and it is far from over. The issues come at us regularly - how women are paid in relation to men doing similar work; how they are represented in places of power, how they are portrayed in the media.

High level campaigns are currently focused on abuse and harassment in the celebrity industries and aid organisations, but across the world, millions of women and girls are victims of a catalogue of oppression - domestic violence, forced marriage, prostitution...the list is a long one.

Wales' first female bishop, Joanna Penberthy, will mark International Women's Day on Thursday by opening an exhibition at St David's Cathedral Library celebrating the centenary of the change in the voting laws, and also a visit to the cathedral by leading suffragettes.

But is religious faith a help or hindrance in the fight for gender equality? How are the Christian churches doing? And what still needs to be tackled?

Roy Jenkins is joined by sociologist and theologian Dr Elaine Storkey, who has written and campaigned extensively on violence against women. Dr Natalie Brand who lectures on women's spirituality at Union School of Theology in Bridgend. Writer and broadcaster Myfanwy Alexander who lives in Montgomeryshire and Kath Miller, Baptist minister at Cefn Hengoed in the Rhymney Valley.

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