Equality on the frontline | Mary Ann Sieghart, Minna Salami and Maya Oppenheim

Описание: Mary Ann Sieghart, Minna Salami and Maya Oppenheim discuss gender differences in times of war.

Should we abandon the idea that men need to protect women?

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From Kamala Harris to the new 007, strong women are changing the world. Yet fifty years of feminism and decades of increasing status and influence for women, and there are still those who see women as the weaker sex. Few for example have publicly challenged the idea that men are called up to fight in Ukraine while women are encouraged to seek sanctuary.

There is though increasing evidence that in many ways women are stronger than men. A recent study showed that in famines, epidemics and enslavement women survive longer than men. And throughout life they survive disease better than men - after all, 50% more men died from Covid. And across all cultures, women live longer.

Should we see it as blinkered prejudice to regard women as weaker and in need of defence by men? Should women be called up to fight? Or would such a transition be not only misguided but profoundly detrimental to women?

#womeninthemilitary #conscription #ukrainewar

00:20 Mary Ann Sieghart
05:50 Minna Salami
09:40 Maya Oppenheim

Mary Ann Sieghart is a journalist and radio presenter and a former assistant editor of The Times. Her latest book is The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men.

Minna Salami is journalist, feminist and author. She has written on the experiences of Nigerian women, the African Diaspora and feminism through her award winning blog, MsAfropolitan. Her latest book is ‘Sensuous Knowledge’.

Maya Oppenheim is Women's Correspondent for the Independent newspaper and writes on issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, abortion and period poverty.

Rana Mitter is a regular presenter of Night Waves and writer for the Financial Times, History Today, and the London Review of Books. He is also a Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at Oxford.

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