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Radio 4,11 Jan 2013,58 mins
Fat women in cartoons; Reclaim re-visited; women footballers' pay; sexual offences survey
Woman's HourAvailable for over a year
Presented by Jenni Murray. Miss Moti is a cartoon character with a difference. She is an overweight Asian woman with no superpowers and she sometimes gets stuck in stairwells because of her size. How visible are fat women in cartoons and comic books? England Women's football team is involved in a row with the FA over pay. What implications could it have for the women's game? A government survey out today, for the first time collates sexual offence figures across departments, we ask, why it's taken so long. Four years ago Woman's Hour visited a mentoring scheme being run by the Manchester-based project, Reclaim. Sinead Andrews and Frances Capon were among those first participants and they join Jenni, along with Labour MEP for North West England Arlene McCarthy, who is a patron of Reclaim, to discuss life after the scheme.
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