In each interview, journalist and broadcaster Angie Mezzetti explores current news in the diversity and inclusion area especially women in leadership. The individual’s career path to her current leadership position is often explored. Hear what challenges the guest may have met along the way and how she overcame it. You can learn what advice she can offer to both and men and women who want to see more women represented at every level of decision making in organisations, in politics, in the boardroom, in science and technology, in academia and education, in sports, in social justice, in banking, in entrepreneurship and in philanthropy.
You can hear how they how they balance the demands of private and family life with the day job. Listen as they share how they have been influenced by others and learn what inspires them in good times and bad. Guests share their Pearls of Wisdom, Best Money Advice Ever, what they are doing for the environment and ESG and their Go To Song.
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In each interview, journalist and broadcaster Angie Mezzetti explores current news in the diversity and inclusion area especially women in leadership. The individual’s career path to her current leadership position is often explored. Hear what challenges the guest may have met along the way and how she overcame it. You can learn what advice she can offer to both and men and women who want to see more women represented at every level of decision making in organisations, in politics, in the boardroom, in science and technology, in academia and education, in sports, in social justice, in banking, in entrepreneurship and in philanthropy.
You can hear how they how they balance the demands of private and family life with the day job. Listen as they share how they have been influenced by others and learn what inspires them in good times and bad. Guests share their Pearls of Wisdom, Best Money Advice Ever, what they are doing for the environment and ESG and their Go To Song.
Prof Jacqueline Dunkley Bent Advocating Takes Courage
Podcast – Women in Leadership
25 minutes 29 seconds
11 months ago
Prof Jacqueline Dunkley Bent Advocating Takes Courage
Advocating for women before during and after birth is the life's work of Prof Jacqueline Dunkley Bent OBE Chief Midwife with ICM International Confederation of Midwives. She used to work for the NHS now she is working at a global level where the need is as great as ever. It takes takes courage to face those who hold the levers of power in society, politically and sometimes even within a family or a relationship. Women are at their most vulnerable when giving birth. While the ideal image we have of the pregnant mother is of the women surrounded by loving family or partner in a safe, high-tech hospital, for very many women around the world, this is far from the norm. Over 287,000 women die worldwide in the period just before during or soon after delivery and that was from a 2020 statistic*. Many because they are in third world countries or war-torn places where standards of midwifery are not high up the agenda if they exist at all. Prof Dunkley Bents mission is to have the best medical and midwife care available to every woman. "This is why health systems, ministries, governments, decision makers, policy makers, strategists, people in power, must pay attention to how we can move the dial on on perinatal mortality, that's stillbirth and death within the first 28 days of life, and how we can move the dial on maternal death so that all women have the same maternity outcomes and experiences as those who have the best." These maternal deaths she believes are a violation of human rights and must be taken seriously. "We know that the majority of maternal deaths occur in low and middle income countries. Sub Saharan Africa alone accounts for approximately 70% of global maternal deaths, and the majority of those are avoidable."
Podcast – Women in Leadership
In each interview, journalist and broadcaster Angie Mezzetti explores current news in the diversity and inclusion area especially women in leadership. The individual’s career path to her current leadership position is often explored. Hear what challenges the guest may have met along the way and how she overcame it. You can learn what advice she can offer to both and men and women who want to see more women represented at every level of decision making in organisations, in politics, in the boardroom, in science and technology, in academia and education, in sports, in social justice, in banking, in entrepreneurship and in philanthropy.
You can hear how they how they balance the demands of private and family life with the day job. Listen as they share how they have been influenced by others and learn what inspires them in good times and bad. Guests share their Pearls of Wisdom, Best Money Advice Ever, what they are doing for the environment and ESG and their Go To Song.
