Chief fire officer, Big Issue ambassador, psychologist, author, champion of dogs – there are legion reasons Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton is one of our favourite guests. And now she’s gone and penned a book that’s bang up Standard Issue’s alley. The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back and How to Break Them explores the serious amount of glass – ceilings, cliffs, breadlines – thwarting women’s potential and delaying equality being reached. So our Mick got on the Zoom to chat to Sab about gender bias, women biased against women, the modesty trap and the glass case of emotion trapping women. And dogs. There’s quite a lot of dog chat.

SIM Ep 835 Chops 248: Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton and The Gender Bias

Only a few sleeps until&nbsp;Succession, so in the meanwhile we've been gorging on a lot of documentaries, including&nbsp;We Need to Talk About Cosby, Wild Isles, Paula, Kathy Burke: Growing Up&nbsp;and&nbsp;Finding Michael. Still time for a bit of drama as Hannah and Mick chat about the last three episodes of&nbsp;The Last Of Us, Jen talks&nbsp;Fleishman Is In Trouble&nbsp;and we all have&nbsp;thoughts on&nbsp;Unforgotten's fifth series.

SIM Ep 834 Outside The Box #53

We're full of life advice in this week’s podzine. First up, Mick chats to Helen Wills, mum of teenagers and host of the&nbsp;Teenage Kicks&nbsp;podcast, about navigating the teenage years as a parent, letting go of control, and what we can learn from the adolescents in our lives. If you’ve ever wondered what happens if someone dies without family or money to deal with the aftermath, Evie King has written a book about exactly this,&nbsp;Ashes to Admin: Takes from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer. She chats to Hannah about the practicalities of planning a funeral and why it’s good to keep death at the back of our mind. In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen’s chatting equal prize money, stupid stories, and alpine excellence, and for god’s sake don’t say his name three times – we’re watching 1988’s Beetlejuice in Rated or Dated. Meanwhile there’s #Patygate, policing, and period pains in the Bush Telegraph – but does it taste of metal?

SIM Ep 833 Pod 246: Does this taste like metal?

Considering that we all start life in one, and that roughly half of the global population has one, the womb remains one of the most under-researched, misunderstood, and controversial organs in the human body. Midwife and best-selling author Leah Hazard wanted to highlight this absence of knowledge, as well as the incredible work being done to better understand it in the future, in her endlessly fascinating new book&nbsp;Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began.&nbsp;In this week’s Chops, Leah chats to Jen about some of that incredible work, why the womb remains profoundly political, and the challenges of getting men, and publishers, to care.

SIM Ep 832 Chops 247: Leah Hazard on the womb

If you want to make our Hannah angry, simply refer to God’s Own Country, Francis Lee’s 2017 film about love between an isolated young sheep farmer (Josh O’Connor) and a Romanian migrant worker (Alex Secareanu) set on a failing farm, as the Yorkshire Brokeback Mountain and watch her Bruce Banner it up. And right enough. It’s fair to say that love for this film, for its cast (hello also Ian Hart and Gemma Jones) and for its closing song from Patrick Wolf is in the air for Yosra and Mick, too. So please enjoy three women having a lovely chat about a wonderful bit of cinema.&nbsp;

SIM Ep 831 Flicking #36: God’s Own Country

Embalming and rape might not sound like the makings of a great conversation, but Mickey proves that theory wrong when she gets on the Zoom with Alexandra Donnachie, whose play&nbsp;When We Died&nbsp;covers both topics.&nbsp;In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen's chatting&nbsp;to boxer Caroline Dubois about the Olympics, trash&nbsp;talking, and turning professional. And in Rated or Dated, well, as you'll hear for yourself, we've thoughts on 1968's&nbsp;The Producers. And - spoiler alert - most of them aren't warm ones. Hannah's got some fun facts about the Elgin Marbles in BT and in SOTW, Mick's talking about childcare costs. Because when aren't we?

SIM Ep 830 Pod 245: Embalming, boxing and SO MUCH SHOUTING

"But women are violent, too" is a phrase often designed to shut down conversations about male violence. But, the inconvenient&nbsp;truth is, women can be and are violent. When? Why? And how does it differ from male violence? They're just some of the questions&nbsp;Hannah puts to Anna Motz, author of a fascinating new book&nbsp;A Love That Kills: Stories of Forensic Psychology and Female Violence.

SIM Ep 829 Chops 246: Anna Motz and violent women

Politics, power and sex play important parts in both of this week’s interviews. Ahead of new BBC documentary, Becoming Frida Kahlo, Hannah’s been on the Zoom with filmmakers Louise Lockwood and Nancy Bornat to talk about the superstar Mexican painter, who channelled her pain, heartache and womanhood into her art.&nbsp;Jen takes us even further back in time to revisit Tudor queens, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, who are the focus of a new exhibition at Hever Castle, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn. Assistant curator Kate McCaffrey chats about&nbsp;Catherine and Anne: Queens, Rivals, Mothers and explains why we still find their lives so fascinating.&nbsp;In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen’s talking about athletics, and a big new deal in women’s sport. In Rated or Dated, there’s bowling, blunts and bonus Tara Reid, as we watch a bonafide cult classic: 1998’s The Big Lebowski. And in the Bush Telegraph, we’re talking boats, bellends, some really bad policies, and Mick is absolutely not wishing you a happy International Women’s Day.&nbsp;

SIM Ep 828 Pod 244: A superstar artist, soapstar queens, and a toe for everyone!

Why do we have hundreds of terms for the different stages of childhood and adolescence, but just one for the parents navigating their way through them all? This is just one of the questions asked in journalist Nell Frizzell’s excellent new book, Holding the Baby: Milk Sweat and Tears from the Frontline of Motherhood. Nell joins Jen to talk about her part-memoir, part-manifesto examining why we treat parenthood as an individual slog rather than a shared cultural responsibility. They chat mental health, maternal rage, relationships, and sleep deprivation, as well as how to fix a system that isn’t working for anyone.

SIM Ep 827 Chops 245: Nell Frizzell’s tracksuit years

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