Women and unemployment; Daisy Johnson; 成人快手 Elite Women's Sport Survey 2020
Leeds Job Centre and women and unemployment, Daisy Johnson on her new novel Sisters, and the 成人快手 Elite Women's Sport Survey 2020.
Presented by Jenni Murray.
Every few days we hear of more jobs going. The Bank of England said at the end of last week that unemployment is likely to hit 2.5 million this year. That means the jobless total would almost double by Christmas. Tonight there鈥檚 a Channel 4 documentary series starting which focuses on a job centre in Leeds and the people who use it. Jenni is joined by Olivia, who is a single mother mum and unemployed, Jan Baxter, who works at the jobcentre in Leeds and Helen Barnard, Acting Director of
Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
In Daisy Johnson鈥檚 novel Sisters July and September have an uncannily close relationship and one is more powerful than the other. Their mother struggles to cope and when things come to a head after a nasty incident at school they flee to a house in Yorkshire which turns out not to be the refuge they needed. Jenni talks to Daisy Johnson about horror, adolescence and the relationship between the two.
The 成人快手 Elite British Sportswomen's Survey was sent to 1,068 women in 39 different sports and received 543 responses. The survey covers trolling; funding and impact of Coronavirus; Periods and the Pill; Racism; Sexism; Abortion and Family Planning; Mental Health. Jenni discusses the findings with Becky Grey, 成人快手 Sports reporter, Susannah Townsend, Gold medal hockey player, Priyanaz Chatterji, Scottish cricketer for Scottish Women鈥檚 Team and Tammy Parlour, CEO of Women Sport鈥檚 Trust.
Producer: Louise Corley
Editor: Karen Dalziel
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