Should employers pay for women to freeze their eggs?
Should employers pay for women to freeze their eggs? The blogger who struck a chord with her first-person account of living in poverty. Plus the follow-up to Five Children and It.
Technology giants Facebook and Apple are to help female employees in the US to pay for the cost of freezing their eggs. Should employers pay for such treatment? Does this level the playing field for women or is it a step too far?
Linda Tirado's blog on "why I make terrible decisions, or, poverty thoughts", struck a chord. Her take on junk food, smoking and having children with multiple partners was shared online more than seven million times. She talks to Jane about how she felt when it went viral and about her new book on being poor in a wealthy world.
The Human Trafficking Foundation charity estimates 20,000 people are working in slavery in the UK, and says that number is rising. What's being done to tackle the problem.
Plus children's author Kate Saunders has written a sequel to E Nesbit's '5 Children and It', taking the children and the Psammead through World War 1 and into adulthood. So, what was the inspiration behind the idea ?
And Rachel, currently revived at the Finborough Theatre in London, is the first play by an African American woman to be produced professionally in 1916. Ola Ince, the director explains the significance. of its writer Angelina Weld Grimk茅 who was a poet, dramatist, journalist, teacher, essayist, radical feminist and lesbian icon.
Presented by Jane Garvey
Producer Beverley Purcell.
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Freezing Eggs
Should employers pay for women to freeze their eggs?
Duration: 08:57
Slave Wives
The Human Trafficking Foundation estimates 20,000 people are working in slavery in the UK
Duration: 10:26
Angelina Weld Grimk茅
Ola Ince discusses this poet, journalist, teacher, radical feminist and lesbian icon
Duration: 06:04
"5 Children and It" Sequel
Childrens author Kate Saunders discusses the idea behind the sequel to E Nesbit's book
Duration: 08:15
Linda Tirado
She talks about her viral blog and about her new book on being poor in a wealthy world
Duration: 06:42
Slave Wives
charity estimates 20,000 people are working in slavery in the UK, and聽they say聽that number is rising.聽 Among them are聽thousands of young women who arrive in the UK as brides, but聽they find that聽real life becomes a trap of drudgery and violence at the hands of their husbands, and even his family. Authorities are sometimes confused, or reluctant, as to how to help. Jane聽is joined by international family lawyer Cris McCurley and Soraya Azam from the Awaaz Honour Crimes Project, a charity聽that helps women escape, to discuss what鈥檚 being done to tackle the problem.
Should employers pay for women to freeze their eggs?
Two聽technology giants, Facebook and Apple, are to help female employees in the US to pay for the cost of freezing their eggs. The news has provoked fierce debate. Does this level the playing field for women who want to delay motherhood until their career is further advanced? Or is it a step too far by employers who are effectively making a problem out of women having children?聽 Professor Geeta Nargund, medical director at Create Fertility IVF Clinics and Daisy Sands, head of policy at the campaigning group the Fawcett Society, debate the issues.Kate Saunders
The children鈥檚 author Kate Saunders has written a sequel to E Nesbit鈥檚 鈥5 Children and It鈥, taking the children and the Psammead through World War聽One and into adulthood.聽 She joins Jane to discuss why聽she聽wanted to revive these much loved characters, written over a hundred years ago, and聽how her own personal loss has inspired the book.Linda Tirado
Why do poor people do things that seem so self-destructive? When Linda Tirado saw this question on an online forum she thought she鈥檇 have a stab at answering it. She was living in Utah with her husband and two small girls, working two jobs and going to college. Her answer, under the heading 鈥淲hy I make terrible decisions, or, poverty thoughts鈥, struck a chord. Linda鈥檚 take on junk food, smoking and having children with multiple partners was shared online more than seven million times. Linda talks to Jane about that article, the response she faced when it went viral and her new book, about being poor in a wealthy world.
Angelina Weld Grimk茅
Rachel, currently revived at the Finborough Theatre in London,聽was the first play by an African American woman to be produced professionally in 1916. The playwright Angelina Weld Grimk茅 was a poet, dramatist, journalist, teacher, essayist, radical feminist and lesbian icon. Ola Ince, the director of Rachel, joins Jane to discuss her significance.
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Role Contributor Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Beverley Purcell Interviewed Guest Linda Tirado Interviewed Guest Geeta Nargund Interviewed Guest Daisy Sands Interviewed Guest Soraya Azam Interviewed Guest Cris McCurley Interviewed Guest Kate Saunders Interviewed Guest Olga Ince Broadcast
- Thu 16 Oct 2014 10:00成人快手 Radio 4
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