Audio clipsBelow are short audio excerpts from the interviews conducted. If you would like to hear all of the interviews in full, including narration by Phil Bloomer (Director of Campaigns and Policy, Oxfam GB), you can order a CD free of charge. To download the MP3 files to your computer, right-click on the links below and choose save. You can play these files using your existing software, or by downloading Windows Media Player. Transcripts of each interview in their entirety are also available below. Interviews by Eka Morgan, freelance radio journalist. Track 1. What is Gender Budgeting?Gender Budgeting explained in brief by campaigners and politicians. Length of clip: 1 min 21 sec |
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Track 2. The View from Local Government
Joan Rees, Director of Development at Redcar and Cleveland Council, explains why we need a change in thinking... Length of clip: 0 min 43 seconds Joan then goes on to explain how Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council teamed up with Oxfam to research whether one particular service, Job Connect, is meeting the needs of men and women equally. Job Connect provides training and equipment to help people find work. Length of clip: 1 min 32 seconds |
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Track 3. Better ExperiencesTwo women who used Job Connect tell us about their experiences.
Michelle Lodge went to Job Connect to get advice on how to get back to work: Length of clip: 1 min 04 seconds |
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Carole Watkins asked Job Connect for a bicycle to save money on bus fares: Length of clip: 1 min 29 seconds |
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Track 4. Different Lives, Different Needs
Sue Himmelweit is a Professor of Economics at the Open University and a member of the UK Women's Budget Group. She describes the different paths which women and men find themselves on in today's society, and how the government could improve the situation… Length of clip: 2 min 10 seconds |
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Track 5. The Scottish Perspective
The Scottish Executive has been carrying out gender budget pilots on the issues of health, sport and smoking cessation. Malcolm Chisholm, the Minister for Communities, explains what prompted the Scottish Executive to take gender budgeting on board… Length of clip: 0 min 49 seconds |
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Track 6. Case Study: Smoking, Sport and Health in Scotland
The Scottish Executive invited Kay Simpson, a campaigner for the Scottish Women's Budget Group, to work inside government to take gender budgeting forward. She describes the gender budget pilot on smoking cessation… Length of clip: 1 min 27 seconds |
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Track 7. Taking it to the Treasury
The UK government has also had positive experiences of gender budgeting. The team at the Treasury that works on gender issues, childcare and work-life balance put together a pilot project to look at gender and expenditure. Two government departments chose programmes to take part in the pilot, The Department of Trade and Industry, which looked at its Small Business Service and the Department for Work and Pensions, which looked at its New Deal for Lone Parents. Ann Taggart ran the project at the Treasury. Length of clip: 1 min 22 seconds |
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Track 8. "Never having to say you are sorry"
Kate Bellamy is Co-Chair of the Women's Budget Group and Senior Policy Officer at the Fawcett Society, an organisation that campaigns on gender equality in the UK. She starts by describing the "public sector gender duty" - new legislation to promote gender equality… Length of clip: 1 min 16 seconds |
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Track 9. Beyond the Tick Box: Taking Things Forward
So where should the drive for gender budgeting come from? Will it come from local or from national government? Joan Rees, Director of Development at Redcar and Cleveland Council discusses… Length of clip: 1 min 29 seconds |
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A change in thinking
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