BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Vicky Featherstone on Maryland; Equality in housework; Keisha the Sket; Tall women and dating

Normally it would take a playwright like Lucy Kirkwood two years to write a play and get it onto the stage. However the relentless news of violence against women and the abuse of police powers in recent weeks compelled her to script a thirty minute piece called Maryland in just a few days and send it to the Royal Court Theatre in London. That was three weeks ago... two weeks ago it opened on stage. The Royal Court’s artistic director, Vicky Featherstone joins Jessica Creighton to explain why.

The Woman’s Hour poll to mark our 75th anniversary found the place where women feel most unequal is in the home - specifically in terms of housework. 75% of the women said the division of chores wasn’t fair, but interestingly it was only named as the fifth most important area in which to achieve equality.

In 2005, the story of Keisha the Sket started being shared by young people on a now defunct early internet platform. The story is told in energetic street slang. Keisha, 17, lives in Hackney, London. She's lively and funny - she is also preyed upon. She wants and enjoys sex and is looking for love, but she is sexualised by the men and boys around her.

The average height of a female in the UK is 5ft 3in. What is life like for women at the other end of the spectrum, especially when it comes to dating? Jessica Creighton is joined by the author of Get Real, Sarah Ivens, who at 6ft would be introduced to dates as 'Queen Kong' or 'Miss Stretchy', and married at 6 ft 3 in in a pair of diamanté heels; and Andrea Hubert, 6ft 1in whose creative comebacks about her height paved the way to her becoming a comedian.

bbkpsychosocial JessCreighton1 Feminist4Lyf RosieCox007 Women should do less and relax more. Then men have space and inclination to step up. Women's super assertive attitude is part of the issue. Just do less and expect less done.

JessCreighton1 Feminist4Lyf RosieCox007 Husband.

JessCreighton1 Feminist4Lyf RosieCox007 Me and my partner split all chores equally, we've been living together just over a year. Cannot for the life of me understand why working women put up with unequal division of household labour.

JessCreighton1 ShutUpAndrea The ideal husband has a hight up to your boobies and replies yes darling to everything you say.

JessCreighton1 ShutUpAndrea Am 6.2 was introduced to a woman 6 ft at a party with an introduction You are the same height you should be get on with each other. She looked so embarrassed By the remark.

JessCreighton1 ShutUpAndrea That was a great programme. Really enjoyed JessCreighton1's presenting

I am utterly against racial discrimination but I'm fed up with the subjects covered today. The slut label has been applied to girls for many years. It is universal, not racial. And black people also appropriate non-black hair styles, clothes etc. Feel flattered, not victimised.

JessCreighton1 ShutUpAndrea 6ft is not even tall 2 many hobbits live in great Britain

JessCreighton1 ShutUpAndrea Of course women get the same constant offensive comments from men and women all through their lives … interesting how u had no idea

JessCreighton1 ShutUpAndrea Loving this, thanks Woman’s Hour. Does anyone else lose the will when their date’s first sentence after ‘Hello!’ is, ‘Gosh, aren’t you tall?’

JessCreighton1 ShutUpAndrea Ha!!! Being a 6ft woman is just a complete pain in the butt!!

JessCreighton1 ShutUpAndrea You are what you are

JessCreighton1 Feminist4Lyf RosieCox007 Guess who does the housework in a third of households. '......in 2020 the proportion of one-person households ranged from 22.8% in London to 33.6% in Scotland and the North East of England.' ONS

JessCreighton1 Feminist4Lyf RosieCox007 It’s me mostly cleaning the common areas. It’s no big deal. I don’t like dirt.

JessCreighton1 Feminist4Lyf RosieCox007 My wife does. In fact she pretty much does it all. It's her chosen job, she loves it. I go out to work, she stays at home. ALL income is shared equally.

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