On the obsession with having your own baby even if it's born through a surrogate rather than I've always thought about all the unwanted children. Julie Bindler has written a lot about surrogacy particularly as you say the kind of outsourcing of it to places like India and the contracts that surrogates are made to sign. There is a review that's going on at the moment into surrogacy laws because currently the idea is that it has to be benevolent rightYou can get pay someone's expenses but you can't pay a contract with them, she says.
International Women’s Week on Intelligence Squared. Change is never easy, it requires putting up a fight, going against the status quo, and if you’re a woman - this may require you to be difficult. In 2020 Helen Lewis, staff writer for The Atlantic, joined us on stage to discuss the lives of some of history’s complicated and contradictory fighters for female freedom, and their refusal to conform to societal expectations. Helen was joined by Caroline Criado Perez, journalist and author of Invisible Women, which is now also a podcast. And the conversation was chaired by broadcaster Samira Ahmed who had just won the employment tribunal she brought against the BBC in a dispute over equal pay. Together they examine why women who challenge the status quo are often seen as threatening or intimidating and why the fight for change is far from perfect.
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