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Woman's Hour: Paloma Faith, Heath Minister Nadine Dorries, Sexual harassment in the workplace, No-fault divorce

12/06/2021

Paloma Faith, Heath Minister Nadine Dorries, Sexual harassment in the workplace, No-fault divorce

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Paloma Faith, Heath Minister Nadine Dorries, Sexual harassment in the workplace, No-fault divorce

Singer Paloma Faith on music and motherhood.

Singer Paloma Faith on motherhood and music. What's the best way to stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace.

Paloma Faith on combining motherhood with her music as well as her reaction to the OFSTED survey that sexual harassment of schoolchildren has become normalised in schools. Her new single Monster is about her relationship with her career.

What's the best way to stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace?  We discuss with Stella Chandler, Director of Development at Focal Point Training which runs in person workplace behavioural courses that includes sexual harassment, and Deeba Syed, a lawyer who set up and manages the sexual harassment at work advice line at Rights of Women. 

The new figurehead known as Nannie is now being installed on the  famous ship, the Cutty Sark: the tea clipper that resides in a specially designed dry dock in Greenwich next to the river Thames in London. Why is the figurehead of a ship often a woman? Louise Macfarlane is senior curator at the Cutty Sark.

The Health Minister Nadine Dorries on the public call for evidence for England's first women's health strategy. 

The new no-fault divorce law has been delayed in England until 2022. What can make divorce less complicated and confrontational? We hear from Ellie, who is in the middle of a break-up, Kate Daly who runs Amicable, an online divorce service, and divorce lawyer Ayesha Vardag. 

What's so special about the relationship between gay men and their straight female best friends? In celebration of Pride Month, we discuss with Matt Cain, author and ambassador of Manchester Pride, and Jill Nalder, best friend of Russell T Davies, and the inspiration for Jill Baxter in the C4 drama 'It's a Sin'.

Presenter: Chloe Tilley 
Producer : Dianne McGregor

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