Spare Rib Online, 2015 Power List, Wiki's Gender Gap?
What impact will Fifa's corruption scandal have on 2015's Women's World Cup? Plus the reaction to 1970s magazine Spare Rib being available online. Presented by Jenni Murray.
What impact will the Fifa corruption scandal have on the Women's World Cup when it kicks off next month? The groundbreaking 1970s magazine Spare Rib is now available online - we hear what a new generation of feminists makes of it. It's reported that women make up less than 10% of those who edit Wikipedia - we discuss whether the gender gap influences the online encyclopedia's content. With the judging underway for the Woman's Hour 2015 Power List: Influencers, today we look at the way ideas are spread and how we are influenced by them. The role of mothers and their sons explored in Shakespeare's plays.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Anne Peacock.
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Spare Rib
Duration: 08:41
±«Óătv Women's Footballer of the Year award
Duration: 07:03
Wikipedia Gender Gap
Duration: 08:01
Parenting in Shakespeare- Mothers and Sons
Duration: 09:03
Womanâs Hour 2015 Power List: Influencers
Duration: 08:34
Spare Rib
Spare Rib was the first magazine of its kind, aimed at bringing a feminist voice to women up and down the country. Marsha Rowe co-founded the magazine in 1972 after realising that even the counterculture press wasnât talking to women. She teamed her experience in and love of mainstream and underground mags to create a publication that became an iconic of the Womenâs Liberations Movement and Ìęran for 21 years. The British Library have now made allowing it to reach a new generation. Jenni is joined by Marsha and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett of The Vagenda, a popular feminist blog, to talk about the trail blazing monthly.Ìę
±«Óătv Women's Footballer of the Year award
Nigeria and Liverpool forward Asisat Oshoala has been named as the 2015 The 20-year-old forward was the youngest player shortlisted for the award and is the first winner of the new award from the ±«Óătv World Service, voted for by football fans around the world. ±«Óătv sports commentator, Sarah Mullerkin reports on what this means for Womenâs Football and looks ahead to the Fifa Womenâs World Cup which starts on the 6th of June and is hosted by Canada.
Wikipedia Gender Gap
Wikipedia is the worldâs most popular encyclopaedia - a hugely influential and also open information source, celebrated as one which anyone can edit. Yet despite this, only nine per cent of its editors are women. Itâs a disparity thatâs said to have influenced not only what pages are created, but also their content. So how much should we worry if our biggest source of knowledge is written almost entirely by men? Why is there such a Wikipedia Gender Gap? And what can we all do to change that? Jenni is joined by Jenny Kleeman, who has written about this for the New Statesman, and by Daria Cybulska of the Wikimedia UK, the charity that supports Wikipedia.
Parenting in Shakespeare- Mothers and Sons
In the last in our series exploring the parent and child relationship in Shakespeareâs plays, we look at the mother and son relationship. Our reporter Judi Herman has been talking to Pippa Guard, lecturer in Drama and English at the University of Greenwich; to actors currently touring the world playing Gertrude and Hamlet in Shakespeareâs Globeâs âGlobe to Globeâ production; and to actors playing a pair of historical warring mothers and their sons in King John, the Globeâs timely co-production with Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton, (a town that played a significant part in its story) in the Magna Cartaâs 800th centenary year.Ìę
King John, is a joint production by Shakespeare's Globe and Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton showing at Salisbury Cathedral as part of the from 27-30 May.
King John then moves to London from 1-27 June
Hamlet, the production by Shakespeareâs Globe âon a two-year tour to every country in the worldâ, arrives back in the UK in time for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeareâs death in 2016.Ìę
Allâs Well that Ends Well, DVD of 2011 production is available from Shakespeareâs GlobeÌę
Womanâs Hour 2015 Power List: Influencers
has been launched and this time weâre looking for the women who are influencing the ways in which we live our lives.Ìę The final list will be revealed at the beginning of July, but over the next few weeks weâll be debating influence and who has it.Ìę Today, Jenni Murray will be considering how influencers spread their ideas and sheâll be joined by Lucy-Anne Holmes, who founded No More Page Three and is the author of How To Start A Revolution and by Gail Parminter, who runs the Mad Women advertising consultancy.ÌęWhoâs influencing the way you live your life? Womanâs Hour 2015 Power List: Influencers will identify ten women who have a huge impact on our lives, not because of their job title but because of their personal impact and their ability to influence others. Our considers how influence operates and who has it as they compile a final ranked list to be revealed at the beginning of July. Who would you like to see on the list? You can influence the judges by getting in touch with your suggestions on email or on twitter @±«ÓătvWomansHour #whpowerlist
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