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Woman's Hour: Part-time work, sexual violence in conflict, graphic novel No Surrender

Part-time work, sexual violence in conflict, graphic novel No Surrender

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Part-time work, sexual violence in conflict, graphic novel No Surrender

Why are there so few decently paid part-time jobs?

600,000 people, most of them women, are actively seeking jobs with part-time hours. Why are there so few part-time jobs and why are so many of them low paid?

Today is day two of an international conference held here in the UK to prevent sexual violence in conflict and Emma Barnett will be talking to Lord Ahmad, who’s the Prime Minister’s special Envoy on this issue.  It’s ten years since the conference began and Woman’s Hour will be looking at what progress has been made to date as well as hearing the testimony of Lejla Damon who was born after her mother was raped in the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s.  Adopted by a British couple, she is now a campaigner raising awareness about rape as a weapon of war and the fallout for victims.
600,000 people in the UK are actively seeking jobs with part-time hours, most of them women – but just twelve percent of jobs advertised in the UK currently offer part-time hours. Those that do are mostly for low paid jobs. That’s according to new research from social enterprise & flexible working experts Timewise. Emma will be speaking to the co-founder of Timewise, Emma Stewart MBE about the impact this is having on both living standards and businesses as well as hearing from one highly successful working mum who’s desperate for more part time work whilst recovering from bone cancer, but has found it impossible to find anything that reflects her impressive skillset.
Sisters Sophie and Scarlett Rickard have brought the suffragette story to life in a new graphic novel called No Surrender. Based on the 1911 novel by the real life suffragette Constance Maud, they hope to make it accessible to a modern audience in a time when protest, and modes of protest, are being debated more than ever in the UK. They tell Emma about their creative process, being women in the world of comics, and living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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