Radio 4 Woman’s Hour - single sex provision

[JellyfishandShells]

Part of equal pay discussion. Head of EHRC calming talking about Equality act and exemptions for single sex provision. Emma Barnet kept asking ‘ why now, who is asking about this.?’ She (Emma ) sounded nervous but I felt a bit hostile.

Is this on today, Jelly?

Do you think this might be like Misha Husain on Today with Nolan and Thompson? That EB has to to be heard to give this topic a thorough scrutiny because it is so controversial to some?

Emma Barnet kept asking ‘ why now, who is asking about this?
I could think of more relevant questions to ask the EHRC, given the chance to speak to them.

I posted this on the EHRC thread:

Baroness Falkner was just on Woman's Hour, round about the 25 minutes point talking about this:

^www..bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010pv6^

^www.twitter.com/polblonde/status/1450394078403874816^

As this tweet says, the message she's coming out with is that the single sex exceptions need to be applied, simply letting institutions decide what to do is proving to be insufficient.

Maybe I misheard, but it seemed to me that EB was pushing Baroness Falkner to acknowledge the conflict that's raging and BF demurred, probably rightly, in a politician kind of way.

@ArabellaScott

Is this on today, Jelly?

It was.

Nauticant - that's how I heard it too.

BF wasn't invited on to talk about single-sex provision but rather to talk about unequal treatment in the workplace and EB used the opportunity to ambush BF on the single-sex issue. It was interesting that BF did engage, cautiously, rather than go all huffy.

I went to re-listen. Actually I thought EB dealt with this well, in a neutral but probing way, seeking to get to how BF perceives this rather than seeking to get a line to fit into a predetermined narrative.

It really is worth a listen.

'it seems to us that the law isn't being used effectively'

That's interesting. Sounds like criticism of Stonewall law, to me. And a statement of intent to sort it out. I think Baroness was pretty good, actually. Tactful, but fairly firm.

Does anyone have a link. Above doesn’t work for me. Thanks

Emma was trying to get her to say something outright about 'Stonewall law' and probably wisely she wouldn't. I thought it was good, although anyone not following the subject probably wouldn't have a clue what was going on ..

Awesome. Keep asking annoying questions Emma.

Awesome. Keep asking annoying questions Emma.

Ooh mn is glitchy

Ooh mn is glitchy

Echo... echo...

I wonder what the responses to the recent EHRC consultation showed, there's also the results from the Toilets consultation and the GRA consultation (as another thread pointed out). I'm really hoping Baroness Falkner is trying to make sure her ducks are in a row. She won't want to look like she's ignoring trans rights completely.

@Blessex There's too many dots in the link, this one should work;

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010pv6

@reptar. Thanks! Listened. Emma knows this is hugely controversial at the moment and I thought BF was good at making clear this is in law and the law is not being followed.