Self employed the mothers missing out.. Science journalist Debora Mackenzie
Self-employed women are receiving less government support during coronavirus if they’ve taken maternity leave between April 2016 and March 2019 – because maternity pay isn’t taken into account when ca...
17 Jun 202045min
Gender Recognition Act; Susie Dent; Artificial Intelligence for online shopping
Some reports suggest the government won’t now go ahead with the reform of the Gender Recognition Act. If true, this means that people won’t be able to self-declare their gender. What will this mean fo...
16 Jun 202053min
Candice Carty-Williams, Summer school plans, Campaign against DV in Iran
As two black British women writers – Bernadine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge - top the UK fiction and non-fiction book charts for the first time, Jane asks bestselling author of Queenie, Candice Carty-...
15 Jun 202048min
Rosamund Pike, Covid-19 and women's finances, Florence Given, Fertility clinics
The scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie is recognised throughout the world but how much do you really know about her and her ground breaking Nobel prize winning discoveries? The Oscar nominated star of G...
13 Jun 202053min
Candice Brathwaite, Protests, Misogyny
Candice Brathwaite set up the group called Make Motherhood Diverse in order to set right a wrong. When pregnant, she didn't recognise anything in books and online that she could relate to. So she set ...
12 Jun 202049min
Covid - Impact on Women's Finances; Bettany Hughes; Berta Cáceres.
A picture is slowly emerging of what has happened to women’s personal finances since the Covid 19 pandemic began. The debt advice charity, Step Change, warned that British households are expected to r...
11 Jun 202044min
Homelessness, Touch, Caring
Fear of becoming homeless is one of the factors that stops women leaving an abusive relationship. That’s according to the charity Women’s Aid which carried out research before covid, and collected evi...
10 Jun 202044min
Rosamund Pike; Violence against grandparents; No-fault divorce; Florence Given
We look at the first UK study into the physical, emotional and financial abuse of some grandparents who are looking after their grandchildren as part of kinship care arrangements. Jane talks to the a...
9 Jun 202049min
