The Women's Podcast

The Women's Podcast


Ep 252 Eve Was Shamed & Deeds Not Words

October 25, 2018

In her latest book, Eve Was Shamed, British barrister Baroness Helena Kennedy QC forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discriminated against throughout the legal system. The law holds up a mirror to society and it is failing women, she says, and the #MeToo campaign has been in part a reaction to those failures. So what comes next? She talks to Róisín Ingle.

Later: 'Deeds Not Words', is a conference at the National Museum in Dublin on Saturday November 3rd looking at a century of change since some Irish women got the vote in 1918. Irish Times journalist Bernice Harrison, is delivering a fascinating speech at it about the design of the first uniforms for women in the Irish Army. She joins Dr Tina Kinsella, who is chairing a panel on women’s bodies, to explain what it’s all about.