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Woman's Hour

Part-time work, sexual violence in conflict, graphic novel No Surrender

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Today is day two of an international conference held here in the UK to prevent sexual violence in conflict and Emma Barnett will be talking to Lord Ahmad, who’s the Prime Minister’s special Envoy on this issue. It’s ten years since the conference began and Woman’s Hour will be looking at what progress has been made to date as well as hearing the testimony of Lejla Damon who was born after her mother was raped in the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s. Adopted by a British couple, she is now a campaigner raising awareness about rape as a weapon of war and the fallout for victims. 600,000 people in the UK are actively seeking jobs with part-time hours, most of them women – but just twelve percent of jobs advertised in the UK currently offer part-time hours. Those that do are mostly for low paid jobs. That’s according to new research from social enterprise & flexible working experts Timewise. Emma will be speaking to the co-founder of Timewise, Emma Stewart MBE about the impact this is having on both living standards and businesses as well as hearing from one highly successful working mum who’s desperate for more part time work whilst recovering from bone cancer, but has found it impossible to find anything that reflects her impressive skillset. Sisters Sophie and Scarlett Rickard have brought the suffragette story to life in a new graphic novel called No Surrender. Based on the 1911 novel by the real life suffragette Constance Maud, they hope to make it accessible to a modern audience in a time when protest, and modes of protest, are being debated more than ever in the UK. They tell Emma about their creative process, being women in the world of comics, and living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

0:05.3

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.0

Today we have a rare voice for you, a remarkable young woman who only relatively recently discovered

0:15.3

the extraordinary circumstances she was conceived in and she found this out when she was just

0:20.7

18.

0:21.7

Now, she's taking centre stage at a major international conference happening in the UK attended by world

0:27.5

leaders and figureheads, including the Ukraine's first lady, Elena Zelenska.

0:32.2

I'll tell you more about that woman, Leyla Damon is her name in just a moment.

0:36.9

You will also hear the tale of two Lancashire sisters who have brought the suffragette story

0:41.0

to life in a new graphic novel and part-time work as businesses cry out for staff and people

0:47.2

women in particular need part-time hours.

0:50.5

Why aren't the job adverts better matching the reality of the needs of the population?

0:54.9

Perhaps that affects you, do get in touch.

0:57.3

Also away from politics with the capital P and also work politics, let's take a moment

1:02.0

to talk about another thorny one but on the domestic front shall we?

1:05.7

How do you get the guests you actually want for the festive period, rather than the guests

1:10.7

you think you should have?

1:12.6

Perhaps the guest list never changes and you wish it would.

1:15.2

Perhaps you've been angling for an invite for years somewhere else.

1:18.7

I asked because of a small story today about Sarah Ferguson, it's being reported she's

1:23.2

being returned to the royal Christmas fold with the new monarch installed.

1:27.2

She's reportedly accompanying her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, having not spent Christmas

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