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Woman's Hour: Laura Bates on extreme misogyny groups online. Getting into debt. Young women and rheumatoid arthritis

10/09/2020

Laura Bates on extreme misogyny groups online. Getting into debt. Young women and rheumatoid arthritis

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Laura Bates on extreme misogyny groups online. Getting into debt. Young women and rheumatoid arthritis

Laura Bates on extreme  misogyny groups online. Women and debt. Rheumatoid arthritis.

Laura Bates on her book Men Who Hate Women. The trend in "buy-now-pay-later" landing women in debt. Plus, what’s it like to be a young woman living with rheumatoid arthritis?

Laura Bates is founder of the Everyday Sexism Project.  In her latest book – Men Who Hate Women - she traces the roots of extreme misogyny across a complex network of online groups - extending from Men's Rights Activists and Pick up Artists to Men Going their Own Way, Trolls and the Incel movement.
She explains how they operate and how she hopes drawing parallels with other extremist movements around the world will help us to understand what makes them attractive to men and boys.. 

Women – and specifically young women – have always been hugely over-represented when it comes to debt. Since the pandemic, charities are hearing from more and more who find themselves in financial difficulty.  Anna who’s now 22  shares how she's managed to clear considerable debt.  Sue Anderson from debt charity Step Change  talks bout the trends they’re seeing when it comes to women and money. Plus financial campaigner Alice Tapper on  why she  thinks the increasing use of  ‘buy-now-pay-later’ methods need much more scrutiny,.
 
This week is Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week. It's a disease that affects three times more women than men under the age of 65.  Women tend to develop it younger than men, with symptoms typically appearing between the ages of 30 and 50 – some can even start to develop it in their teens. So what’s it like to be a young woman living with the condition? Yulanda Sabrina is a singer and was diagnosed five years ago at the age of 28. She speaks to Jenni along with Clare Jacklin, Chief Executive of the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society.

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Producer Beverley Purcell

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