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16/04/2018

Catrin Nye hosts a series of monthly national debates from locations across Wales. This edition comes from Swansea and explores gender equality in Wales.

The programme comes from Swansea's Brangwyn Hall and presenter Catrin Nye asks: are women and men really equal today in Wales?

It is 100 years since women won the vote - but how much has changed? In politics, we have had two female prime ministers, but the House of Commons and the National Assembly still have a majority of male elected members.

Meanwhile, the row over the gender pay gap is hotting up daily, as Welsh businesses and public bodies publish their own statistics on pay, and some women band together to bring legal actions against their employers. And then there is the apparently neverending succession of sexual harassment allegations against leading figures in TV and movies.

In many key areas, Wales lags behind other parts of the UK in terms of women taking on senior roles in business, education or local government. So are we a more sexist nation?

But there is plenty to celebrate too: the gender pay gap is narrowing, women are more visible in sport, industry, science and engineering, and men are playing a role in bringing up their children - something that would have been unthinkable 30 years ago never mind a century ago.

The programme hears from some of the women who have been at the cutting edge of social change - including Wales's first ever woman bishop - and those who feel that things are not changing fast enough. The programme also be looks at what happens behind closed doors in the Welsh family home. The statistics reveal that while men are doing more domestic tasks, it is still women who do the lion's share of the work on the home front, even when they themselves go out to work full time. Does that have to change before women can achieve equality in the workplace? Or do they actually prefer to take more of the responsibility? Is the Welsh mam alive and well in modern Wales? We hear from people who say women's traditional domestic role has been undervalued and many women would rather be at home with their children than out at work

Plus reporter Steffan Powell presents all the key facts and stats and keeps an eye on what is being said on social media.

1 hour

Last on

Mon 16 Apr 2018 22:40

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Catrin Nye
Reporter Steffan Powell
Director Emyr Afan
Executive Producer Clare Hudson
Production Company Avanti Media

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