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Woman's Hour: The Brit Awards. Targeted adverts online. The ages of motherhood. Welsh Rugby.

23/01/2023

The Brit Awards. Targeted adverts online. The ages of motherhood. Welsh Rugby.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, The Brit Awards. Targeted adverts online. The ages of motherhood. Welsh Rugby.

Women artists at the Brits. Targeted adverts online. When's the right time to have a baby?

Women artists at the Brits. Do the adverts that pop up on your online feed relate to your gender? What's the best age to become a mum? The culture within Welsh Rugby Union.

The Brits scrapped their best male and best female awards last year in favour of gender-neutral prizes.  This year no women are on the shortlist for best artist - won by Adele last year -  though are nominated in other categories.  Social media has been awash with fans of musicians like Charlie XCX, Florence Welch, Mabel and Ella Henderson asking why they'd been overlooked. We hear from journalist Laura Snapes the Guardian's music editor and Vick Bain who's worked in the music industry for 25 years, was the CEO of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers & Authors and founder of The F-List directory of UK female musicians. 

Several former employees at the Welsh Rugby Union have told the BBC about a ‘toxic’ culture of sexism at the organisation. Nuala McGovern is joined by former Wales rugby international and Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi. 

Do you ever wonder why you’re being shown particular adverts online? Nuala speaks to one woman, Hannah Tomes, who is being advertised egg donation banks despite having no interest in this – she wonders if she’s being advertised to because of her gender – we will seek to find out if she’s right and speak to the BBC’s Technology Editor Zoe Kleinman. 

Figures from the ONS show that there are now twice as many women giving birth over the age of 40 as there are having children under the age of 20.  But does the age you become a mother change the way you experience parenting? We hear from two women who had children at very different points in their lives…Lucy Baker the founder of the blog Geriatric Mum and Lauren Crosby Medlicott a freelance journalist who has written about her experience as a young mum.

Presenter Nuala McGovern
Producer Beverley Purcell

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