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22/03/2024

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Woman's Hour: Launch of the Woman's Hour Power List 2023, Triathlete and screenwriter Lesley Paterson; Chores post Covid

Triathlete and screenwriter, Lesley Paterson; Chore calculator post Covid

Launch of the Woman's Hour Power List 2023, Triathlete and screenwriter Lesley Paterson; Chores post Covid

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Launch of the Woman's Hour Power List 2023, Triathlete and screenwriter Lesley Paterson; Chores post Covid

Blue Plaque for the 'founding spirit' of the Notting Hill Carnival, Claudia Jones.

Launch of the Woman's Hour Power List 2023, triathlete and screenwriter Lesley Paterson, Chores post Covid, and Claudia Jones.

The Woman's Hour Power List for 2023 is here! Last year was a game-changer for the visibility and perception of women in sport in this country and we want to showcase inspirational women – both on and off the field – who are spearheading and building on this momentum to elevate women’s sport. We need your suggestions! The chair of judges Jessica Creighton joins Anita Rani to launch the Power List and explains how you can make your suggestion. 

Lesley Paterson is a five times world champion triathlete. She’s also a successful screenwriter, who has just been nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s taken her sixteen years to get the film made. A woman no stranger to endurance, she explains how she used her prize money from her sporting career to help fund the film. It’s now one of this year’s biggest contenders at the Oscars and BAFTAs.   

A transgender woman in Scotland has been convicted of raping two women in attacks carried out before changing gender.   Isla Bryson is now in custody and facing a lengthy jail term - but where that sentence should be served is the subject of heated debate. It has led to concerns about the safety of any women held alongside Bryson in a female prison.  The Scottish Prison Service says the decision on where transgender prisoners are housed is taken on a case-by-case basis after appropriate risk assessments.  Catriona Renton has been following the case for BBC Scotland News and joins Anita.

Claudia Jones, the woman described as the 'founding spirit' of Notting Hill Carnival, is to be commemorated with a blue plaque this year. The feminist, journalist and political activist is one of five women whose achievements and legacy will be marked by English Heritage.  Currently, about 14 per cent of the nearly 1,000 blue plaques honour women.  Anita finds out more from the freelance journalist and Editor of Soho House, Sagal Mohammed.

WFH, or the hybrid working week, has become the new norm for many of us in the paid workforce since Covid. But how does this affect the amount of unpaid domestic labour and the sharing of daily chores in UK households?  Who does the most in your home – men or women? How happy are you with the division of work?  What has changed since the lockdowns?  Shireen Kanji, Professor of work and organisation at Brunel University and Oriel Sullivan, Professor of Inequalities of Gender, at the Centre for Time Use Research, University College, London discuss a hypothetical chore calculator; what chores are being inputted daily and what’s the emotional result? 

Presented by Anita Rani
Producer:  Louise Corley
Editor: Karen Dalziel

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