Ep 234: Shining a Light on Ageism with Annabel Giles and a Period Poverty Breakthrough with Amika George

Is Britain an ageist country? And do we need to change how view age and life as we get older?Harriet and Natalie are joined by Jenny Trent Hughes as Emma takes a week off.Annabel Giles joins the badass ladies in the studio to discuss older women and ageism in the workplace, the dating world and the “unspoken rules” we seem to have around getting older and how we react to that with our standards and beliefs.And teenage activist Amika George talks about campaigning for the injustice around period poverty in the UK and how it has created change in parliament resulting a new government scheme to provide free sanitary product in UK secondary schools. For information on all your hosts you can click on their names:Harriet MinterNatalie CampbellEmma Sexton If you want to get in touch you can find us on all the socials under this name: @badasswomenshrAnd for more about the podcast head here: https://www.badasswomenshour.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.