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Edith Cavell; Part-time working men; Women and blindness; Children's Emergency Rescue

How more men working part-time could be key to unlocking women's potential in the workplace. Plus gender and blindness, and remembering Edith Cavell. Presented by Sheila McClennon.

Sheila McClennon is joined by neonatal consultant Dr Hazel Talbot and Lisa, the mother of Chance, a 14-year-old boy who urgently needs a heart transplant. Both are featured in a new series for 大象传媒2, Children's Emergency Rescue, narrated by Fiona Bruce and made by 大象传媒 Yorkshire.

Sheila asks whether more part time men could be the key to unlocking women's potential in the workplace and talks to Professor Tom Schuller about his theory, 'The Paula Principle', of why women aren't fulfilling their potential in the workplace, and why there needs to be a transformation of attitudes to part-time working if women are to get ahead.

There is a new online petition to have Edith Cavell's image on a limited edition 拢2 marking the centenary of WW1, Cavell's biographer discusses her life.

And escaping the perceptions of, and stereotypes around, blindness, isn't it harder women than it is for men?

Presenter: Sheila McClennon
Producer: Rozina Breen
Editor: Nicola Swords.

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Fri 24 Jan 2014 10:00
大象传媒 Radio 4 FM

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  • Part-time working men

    Could this be the key to unlocking women's potential in the workplace?

    Duration: 09:51

  • Campaign to put Edith Cavell on a coin

    Edith Cavell鈥檚 biographer discusses her life and why she should be honoured in this way

    Duration: 08:41

  • Children's Emergency Rescue

    A mother of a patient and a doctor featuring in the documentary talk about the service

    Duration: 10:56

  • Landmark Birthdays Feedback

    Woman鈥檚 Hour listeners reckon they鈥檝e 鈥渟till got it鈥�!

    Duration: 01:58

  • Gender & Blindness: do we treat blind women differently from blind men?

    Blind opera singer Denise Leigh and partially blind academic Hannah Thompson discuss

    Duration: 09:14

Part-time working men

A new book, to be published later this year, will say that in order to close the gender equality gap in the workplace, more men need to work part time. 鈥楾he Paula Principle鈥� is the female mirror of the 鈥楶eter Principle鈥� a management theory which suggests that people will tend to be promoted until they reach their 鈥榩osition of incompetence.鈥� It鈥檚 author, Dr Tom Schuller, suggests that 鈥� for too long 鈥� the closing of the gap has relied on women working to a male model and that now, if women are to achieve their full potential, men need to start taking a more female approach.

Campaign to put Edith Cavell on a coin

A new is calling for Edith Cavell to feature on a听 拢2 coin, as one in听 a new 听series being issued by The Royal Mint over the next four years to mark听 WW1.听 Edith Cavell was a a nurse, shot at dawn by a German firing squad for her resistance work听 in helping hundreds of allied soldiers escape occupied Belgium. Cavell鈥檚 biographer, Diana Souhami is a supporter of the campaign, and tells Sheila why听 she deserves the听honour.

Children's Emergency Rescue

Next week sees the start of a new series on 大象传媒2, made by 大象传媒 Yorkshire and narrated by Fiona Bruce. The three hour-long documentaries follow the work of doctors and nurses at Embrace, a medical team based near Barnsley in South Yorkshire and dedicated to transporting very sick children from local hospitals to specialist units throughout the North. Two women at the centre of episode 1听听Dr Hazel Talbot, a Neonatal consultant and Lisa McLoed, the mother of a teenager who urgently needs 听a heart transplant join Sheila in the studio.

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Landmark Birthdays Feedback

Earlier this week, we took a look at after the press celebrated Kate Moss turning 40 with the headline 鈥楰ate鈥檚 still got it at 40鈥�.听听But since when did 40 mean over the hill?听 You sent us your views鈥�

Gender & Blindness: do we treat blind women differently from blind men?

In 听her recent autobiography, 鈥業 Didn鈥檛 See That Coming鈥�,听听Andrea Begley, last year鈥檚 winner of TV reality show, 鈥楾he Voice鈥�, described how she loved the competition because it wasn鈥檛 about听 razzmatazz and image, but 听about听 the contestants being judged purely on their sound. 听However,听听as a blind person appearing 听on a reality show, she also admitted to being wary, albeit only 听initially,听 that she 听could听 be portrayed as trying to trade on the sympathy vote.听听How easy is it for blind people to escape the perceptions society sometimes places 听upon them , and is it 听harder 听for blind women than blind men?听To discuss, Sheila is joined by Hannah Thompson, a partially blind academic from Royal Holloway University of London and by professional soprano, Denise Leigh, who is also blind.听听听听听

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Presenter Sheila McClennon
Interviewed Guest Hazel Talbot
Interviewed Guest Tom Schuller
Producer Rozina Breen

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  • Fri 24 Jan 2014 10:00
    大象传媒 Radio 4 FM

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