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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: Women at breaking point, Revenge porn, The term 'witch'

16/02/2021

Weekend Woman's Hour: Women at breaking point, Revenge porn, The term 'witch'

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: Women at breaking point, Revenge porn, The term 'witch'

Women at breaking point, revenge porn, and the use of the term 'witch'.

Why so many women feel they are at breaking point as they try and juggle working from home with home schooling, the law and revenge porn, and the use of the term 'witch'.

Why the latest lockdown has left so many women feeling at breaking point as they try to juggle home schooling and working from home simultaneously. Annie tells us her story and we hear from Leann Cross the Director of Homestart Greenwich and Sam Smethers  the former Chief Exec of the Fawcett Society,.
 
Model and TV personality, Zara McDermott talks about revenge porn. Intimate images of her were shared without her consent when she was 14 and again when she was 21.  Sharing explicit or intimate images without consent has been illegal since 2015, when Baroness Morgan was in office as Minister for Women and Equalities.  Baroness Morgan joins the discussion to talk about the change to the law, which has been failing women and girls.

Harry Dunn was just 19 when he was was killed on his motorbike in Northamptonshire in 2019 when an American woman was driving on the wrong side of the road. His mum Charlotte Charles tells us about the latest ruling in the campaign to get Harry justice.

Why are so many girls and women suffering from vulva anxiety? Alix Fox, a sex journalist, broadcaster and educator, and Dr Naomi Crouch, the Chair of the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology discuss.

A new TV campaign is urging people from BAME backgrounds to take the Covid-19 vaccine,   We hear from Mehreen Baig who's backing  the campaign and Dr Binita Kane a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Manchester University Foundation Trust.   
 
And the Classics scholar Mary Beard on how the term ‘witch’ has been used as an insult which she believes is an attempt to discredit her and older women generally.

Presenter Anita Rani
Producer  Rabeka Nurmahomed

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