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Prom mania, Men's biological clock, Supermarket women, Budget 2015

Topics include UK prom nights, whether men have a biological clock, how supermarket chains have affected shop workers and the impact of the Budget on women. With Jenni Murray.

Prom Night - How the ritual of the American Prom has become a fixture of the school calendar in the UK. Reporter Donna Birrell joins students from Mounts Bay Academy in Penzance, Cornwall as they celebrate at a hotel overlooking St Ives Bay.

Do men have a biological clock? How much is this part of the conversation when a couple decides whether or not to have children? Dr Jackson C. Kirkman-Brown, Science Lead at Birmingham Women's Fertility Centre and Sheena Lewis, Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Queen's University Belfast discuss why fertility is seen as a female concern.

Supermarket women - In the last of our Sylvia Pankhurst series about the lives of working women, Emma Barnett talks to women who work in retail and Dr Brendan Burchell, Reader in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Magdalene College about how in the last 50-years the rise of the large supermarket chains has changed the life of shop workers. .

Sarah Pennells, independent finance journalist analyses 2015's budget and its impact on women.

Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Rebecca Myatt.

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45 minutes

Chapters

  • Women and The Budget

    Duration: 04:54

  • Men's Biological Clock

    Duration: 11:01

  • School Prom

    Duration: 07:55

  • Sylvia Pankhurst

    Duration: 18:02

Women and the Budget

How exactly will the 2015 Summer Budget impact women? Joining Jenni is Sarah Pennells, independent finance journalist and author behind the money saving website

School Proms

Reporter Donna Birrell joined students from Mounts Bay Academy in Penzance as they celebrated their school Prom at a hotel overlooking St Ives Bay in Cornwall.

Men’s Biological Clock

Do men think about their biological clocks and the biological clocks of their partners and how much is this part of the conversation between them when it comes to deciding to have children? Jenni talks to Dr Jackson.C Kirkman-Brown, Reader in Human Reproductive Science, Science Lead at Birmingham Women's Fertility Centre about what men need to know about their fertility and biological clocks; and to Professor Sheena Lewis, Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Queen’s University Belfast, about why seeing fertility as a female concern is not only unfair to women but also ignores men who she considers hidden or ignored when it comes to fertility treatment.

Working Women: In the steps of Sylvia Pankhurst - Supermarkets

In the last of our features series about the lives of working women, Emma Barnett talks to women who work in retail. When the journalist and suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst wrote her ground breaking exploration into working women’s lives in 1907, shop work was largely carried out in small premises with specialist employees. In the last fifty years the rise of the large supermarket chains has changed the life of shop workers and the industry now employs 3.8 million people – 14% of jobs in the UK are in grocery retailing. Jenni is joined by Dr Brendan Burchall, Reader in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Magdalene College.

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest Jackson Kirkman-Brown
Interviewed Guest Sheena Lewis
Interviewed Guest Amil Khan
Interviewed Guest Liam Pierce
Interviewed Guest Ryan Greg
Interviewed Guest Donna Birrell
Interviewed Guest Brendan Burchell
Interviewed Guest Sarah Pennells
Interviewed Guest Emma Barnett
Producer Rebecca Myatt

Broadcast

  • Thu 9 Jul 2015 10:00

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