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Female GPs; A Partner's Ex

Are part-time female GPs creating a problem for the health service? Jane Garvey and guests discusses the impact on a relationship of a partner's ex-loves.

Are part-time female GPs creating a problem for the health service? Polly Vernon and Eleanor Moran discuss the impact on a relationship of a partner's ex loves. We hear from Afghanistan's first female military helicopter pilot. A new report says women's inequality is getting worse under current government policies.
Presented by Jane Garvey.
Producer by Rebecca Wood.

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  • Female GPs

    Are part-time women doctors creating a timebomb for the NHS?

    Duration: 11:52

  • Your partner鈥檚 ex

    Coping with the jealousy that hearing about a partner's romantic past can provoke.

    Duration: 05:51

  • Women鈥檚 Equality Report

    Women鈥檚 Resource Centre report on how austerity policies are affecting equality for women.

    Duration: 11:45

  • Afghanistan鈥檚 female military helicopter pilots

    One of Afghanistan's first women military helicopter pilots talks about her career.

    Duration: 09:23

Are part-time women doctors creating a timebomb for the NHS?

This year women GPs are predicted to outnumber male GPs.听A听 15 year follow-up of doctors after graduation showed that, on average, after career breaks and part time working are taken into account women work 25% less than their male counterparts. What impact will this have on patient care and the profession as a whole and what鈥檚 being done to address potential problems in the future? Jane discusses with Dr Sarah Wollaston, MP, and Dr. Katherine Woolf,听Academic psychologist.

Being jealous of your partner鈥檚 ex

Being jealous of your partner鈥檚 ex

For most of us, our partner鈥檚 exes are mysterious people who we鈥檒l usually never know beyond our partner鈥檚 coy descriptions and maybe the odd item left behind, a relic of relationships past. In Leanne Shapton鈥檚 latest graphic novel, 鈥榃as She Pretty?鈥� she looks at perceptions of former loves and how knowledge (or lack of) can bring out our jealousies. Have you ever been haunted by your partner鈥檚 ex? Columnist Polly Vernon and author discuss.

Was She Pretty? By Leanne Shapton. Published by Particular Books

Women鈥檚 Equality Report

Inequality for women is getting worse as a direct result of the Government鈥檚 austerity policies, according to charities working in the women鈥檚 sector. Later today the Women鈥檚 Resource Centre will launch a report which it says points to a breach in the UN鈥檚 bill of rights for women, a convention that the UK government is signed up to.听The WRC is hoping that international pressure will force the government to take gender equality into account in its policy making decisions. Jane is joined by Vivienne Haynes of the WRC and by Sue Robson of the North East Women鈥檚 Network, an area said to be suffering a 鈥榗risis of gender inequality鈥�.

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Afghanistan鈥檚 first female military helicopter pilots

In 1989 Latifa Nabizada and her sister Laliuma became Afghanistan's first women military helicopter pilots. Five years ago Laliuma died in childbirth, so Latifa is now bringing up both her sister鈥檚 child and her own daughter Malalai.听She talks about balancing her military career and motherhood.

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jane Garvey
Producer Rebecca Wood
Interviewed Guest Polly Vernon
Interviewed Guest Eleanor Moran

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  • Mon 13 May 2013 10:00

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