大象传媒

Last weekend Rose Ayling-Ellis and her partner Giovanni Pernice danced part of their routine on Strictly with a silent section in tribute to the deaf community. Rose thanked her partner by saying "I feel very thankful for your determination to make this dance the most positive, happy dance, it can be, because you know that being deaf, there's nothing wrong, it's such a joy to be deaf". Rose, who normally stars in EastEnders, is one of many female deaf actors to grace our screens. Sophie Leigh Stone was the first deaf actress to win a place at RADA and to take part in Doctor Who. Gabriella Leon plays Jade Lovall in Casualty. Even Eternals - the latest Marvel movie - stars Lauren Ridloff as the deaf superhero Makkari. So what effect is this increased visibility of deaf women having on the deaf community? Emma is joined by Camilla Arnold, a friend of Rose Ayling-Ellis and the 大象传媒's first deaf series producer and Teresa Waldron, the managing director of Deaf-initely Women, a charity supporting deaf women in Derby.

While the sleaze debate rumbles on in parliament, this morning the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is announcing a new campaign to stop sexual violence against women and girls in conflict around the world. This includes more than 拢20 million of new funding to tackle the issue. She will be speaking at the Gender Equality Advisory Council today to seek a new global agreement to condemn the use of rape and sexual violence as weapons of war as a 鈥渞ed line鈥� on a par with chemical weapons.
The campaign is a response to a report by the Gender Equality Advisory Council, an independent group of experts convened by the Prime Minister under the UK's G7 Presidency. We hear from Baroness Arminka Helic, a Conservative Peer in the House of Lords. She started off a UK government programme to tackle sexual violence in conflict zones that was then launched by former foreign secretary Lord William Hague and Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie.

Former netball England International and England head coach Tracey Neville MBE is supporting a new campaign - 鈥楥oach the Coaches鈥� - to encourage young women from deprived areas to use sport to help improve their metal health AND their career opportunities. The campaign aims to give 16-24 year olds the skills needed to become coaches. We ask the Former England Netball head coach why she wanted to support the campaign.

The Bank of England has warned against women working from home and that not returning to the office will result in 鈥榯wo track鈥� career development. We discuss this with the Resolution Foundation鈥檚 Research Director Lindsay Judge and Emma Stewart MBE, Co-Founder of Timewise, a flexible working consultancy.

Angela Merkel is stepping down as German chancellor after 16 years in power, bringing to an end a political career that has spanned more than three decades. Back in 1991, when Angela was Minister for Women, the photographer Herlinde Koelbl began a study called 鈥楾races of Power鈥�, using Angela as one of her photographic subjects. This event took place across a thirty year period, and the results are now displayed in a new book 鈥楢ngela Merkel: Portraits 1991-2021'.

Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Baroness Arminka Helic
Interviewed Guest: Camilla Arnold
Interviewed Guest: Teresa Waldron
Interviewed Guest: Tracey Neville
Interviewed Guest: Herlinde Koelbl
Interviewed Guest: Lindsay Judge
Interviewed Guest: Emma Stewart