Episodes

  • 2.6 The contraceptive headache

    2.6 The contraceptive headache
    Oct 19 2022
    If you ask any woman whether she’s happy with her contraception, chances are she’ll say no - but that she’s settled for the best of a bad bunch. In this episode, Caroline asks why our options are stuck in the 1960s. We take a deep dive into the history of family planning; we investigate the hurdles standing in the way of progress; and we uncover some ground-breaking forms of contraception that could one day be coming to a clinic near you.

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    44 mins
  • 2.5 Waiting for the ladies

    2.5 Waiting for the ladies
    Oct 12 2022
    Caroline is sent photos of women’s toilet queues on an almost daily basis, since writing in her book Invisible Women about how women’s queues are always longer than the men’s. In this episode, she investigates the history of public conveniences, what impact they have on women’s participation in society and why councils and businesses seem unable to get it right.

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    44 mins
  • 2.4 The day the women went on strike

    2.4 The day the women went on strike
    Oct 5 2022
    In October 1975, the women of Iceland took a 'day off', leading to national chaos. It highlighted the importance of women’s roles in the economy, of which unpaid care work - cooking, cleaning, caring for family - is a vital part. In this episode, Caroline asks whether the Covid pandemic could be the shock we need to finally fix perhaps the greatest gender data gap of all.

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    40 mins
  • 2.3 The concussed female brain

    2.3 The concussed female brain
    Sep 28 2022

    After learning shocking data about concussions in women's rugby, Caroline takes a closer look, and discovers an even more widespread and worrying issue. Domestic violence affects one in three women worldwide, and new research suggests many of these women may experience repeated concussions after violent abuse. Caroline meets the people working in this under researched area, and hears from a woman who is still recovering from her own experience.


    This episode comes with a caution for descriptions of domestic violence


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    41 mins
  • 2.2 Are pianos sexist?

    2.2 Are pianos sexist?
    Sep 21 2022
    The standard piano keyboard is too big for 87% of women and 25% of men, limiting the range of pieces they can play. But how did pianos end up this size? Is it time we came up with an alternative? The Visible Women team investigates.

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    42 mins
  • 2.1 Murderous menstrual blood

    2.1 Murderous menstrual blood
    Sep 7 2022

    If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that periods are terrifying. Well, men have certainly seemed to think so. All the way back to Roman times, the male chroniclers of the human condition have agreed on one thing: menstruation is unseemly, ungodly and just plain horrible. The resulting taboo means we know really very little about periods, with obvious knock-on consequences for women’s health. Now, researchers are investigating the healing powers of period blood, and how it could hold the key to developing treatments for conditions like endometriosis. In this episode, the Visible Women team asks: what could we gain from breaking the taboo over periods.


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    41 mins
  • Introducing Season 2: Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez

    Introducing Season 2: Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
    Sep 1 2022

    How do we fix a world designed for men? In this ambitious second season, Caroline will investigate data gaps in everything from endometriosis to the economy, concussions to contraception -- and she’ll revisit her old nemesis: the queue at the ladies’ toilets. You’ll hear Caroline and the Visible Women team tackle decades-old myths about female reproductive health, and hear more from the people fighting to change things. You might even find out whether menstrual blood can really kill your husband.


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    1 min
  • 6. Privacy vs the gender data gap

    6. Privacy vs the gender data gap
    Jul 20 2022

    Caroline has spent over a decade calling for more data to be collected on women -- but in this episode the Visible Women team investigates: what happens when that data gets used against us? For many of us, concerns about privacy may seem like an intellectual exercise, but post Roe V Wade, this is has become a live issue for millions of American women. And, as we discover, this is something all women should care about.


    Bonus episodes featuring behind the scenes chats, rants, and stories from Caroline’s community of generic female pals are released every Friday for Tortoise members and Tortoise+ subscribers on Apple Podcasts.


    Just subscribe to Tortoise on Apple Podcasts, or join Tortoise as a member to get this, plus even more content and invites to exclusive newsroom events with the code Caroline50. Visit tortoisemedia.com/Caroline


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    41 mins