BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Tash Speed, Eurotunnel Train Driver

Eurotunnel train driver Tash Speed; women, Northern Ireland and the general election; free periods; women in Stem v Wikipedia.Tash Speed, 25, is one of 20 women who work as a Eurotunnel driver in the UK. recently appearing on the BBC2 documentary celebrating its 25th anniversary. Originally a financial advisor, she retrained in a vigorous driving and engineering course with a 90% fail rate.

Andrea Catherwood speaks to Grainne Teggart, from Amnesty Northern Ireland and writer, Siobhan Fenton. What are the key issues for women in Northern Ireland in the upcoming General Election? After a long campaign from #FreePeriods, the Government agreed to fund a scheme to ensure all primary and secondary schools and colleges provided free period products to menstruating pupils. This was meant to start rolling out in September 2019 but has now been pushed back to January 2020. It is an opt-in scheme and so schools and colleges must sign up to receive free sanitary products.

Most Wikipedia profiles are of men. A British physicist has made it her mission to change that, adding pages for more than 800 women in STEM. But who really decides who is notable enough to be included in the encyclopedia? Dr Jess Wade explains her quest for diversity and equality online, and the real-life impact it can have on the careers of women scientists.

gem_abbott Where the theSNP Scottish Government lead others will inevitably follow So reassuring that highlighted this fact & congratulated NicolaSturgeon & her hard working team who achieved this some time ago You did make a point of highlighting it.... Didn’t you😳

gem_abbott WEN_UK

gem_abbott This was great to hear today. My form have set a similar scheme up at our school that they are running themselves

gem_abbott Nice to see you have done your research, not

jesswade Phooey on the Librarian who wrote in to say they would never use Wikipedia and would always prefer to use Encyclopedia Britannica. This is not a fair comparison as they do different things - and I hope their students are learning critical thinking *somewhere*!

jesswade it starts at 29:30 :)

GTeggart AmnestyNI SiobhanFenton Immigration. Health.

gem_abbott PaigeHollandxo WMCKilmarnockAc Products been available in our school and in Scotland for a good while. Proud my daughter is a part of rolling this out in the school and the school are seeing a huge difference, it is working!!

LeShuttle MorenoVanLaeken

aimeevanrobot jesswade Jess, you superstar

gem_abbott I was in Scotland a couple of months ago visiting some universities and this was already happening. Yet again rUK follow the theSNP lead

jesswade 100% of BBC gender-specific output is gynocentric. Mission that!

jesswade Have you linked up with WikiWomenInRed? They are doing this for women more broadly. This is super important work, so thank you! 👍🏽

gem_abbott Just listened to this report great that it’s happening but... Scotland already do this. First country in the world to fund it so scotgov got lots of praise oh no hang on Scotland not mentioned, nope, not one mention. Nothing.

wow, that’s the worst photo of me ever taken. but thanks for having me on! 😀

jesswade Let's start women's wiki clubs

gem_abbott Fab to hear efforts to eliminate period poverty. How does this sit with environmental impact of single use plastics? Will reusable items be offered (e.g. cups, pants, cloth)- best value for long lasting period mngmt esp where disposables cost too much. And I love them!

jesswade That sounds like a lot of work, we should just delete the articles about the men

gem_abbott This is already happening in Scotland. The FE College I teach at in the North East has been offering free products for over a year now. Such a great scheme which loads of our students benefit from periodpoverty CFINEAberdeen

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