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Woman's Hour: Review into alleged abuse in British Gymnastics

Review into alleged abuse in British Gymnastics

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Alleged abuse in GB gymnastics, definitions of 'woman', gender pay gap, Vaginal pessaries.

Review into alleged abuse in GB gymnastics, changing dictionary definitions of 'woman', new research into the gender pay gap, and making informed choices in women's health.

An interim report into British Gymnastics, published this week, revealed 1,500 complaints between 2015 and 2020, including 39 claims passed to police. Jessica Creighton is joined by former gymnast, Claire Heafford and Sarah Moore, one of the lawyers working on the case.

It took a year for Maria Beatrice Giovanardi to convince the Oxford Dictionary of English to not only change their definition of 'woman' but to re-examine the synonyms for 'woman' in their thesaurus, and amend the contents. Maria has now turned her attentions to Treccani, a leading online Italian dictionary, in a bid to get them to do the same thing. She tells us how this part of her campaign is progressing and why language matters.

A new report out today from the Institute of Fiscal Studies suggests that women in heterosexual couples are much more likely than men to give up their jobs, or cut their hours, after becoming parents. And it shows that this happens even if the woman earns more than her male partner.  Alison Andrew, Senior Research Economist at the IFS joins me now to discuss.

The first UK Clinical Guideline for the use of vaginal pessaries in pelvic organ prolapse was launched last week. The multidisciplinary Guideline Group included 3 pessary users who co-developed the resource. Being written against the background of the Baroness Cumberlege report ‘First Do No Harm’ from July 2020, it aims to help women learn, understand and be empowered to ask about whether a pessary is the right option for them.


Presenter: Jessica Creighton
Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Claire Heafford
Interviewed Guest: Sarah Moore
Interviewed Guest:  Maria Beatrice Giovanardi
Interviewed Guest: Alison Andrew
Interviewed Guest: Kate Lough
Interviewed Guest: Kath Sansom

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