Ruth Alexander
speaker
4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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Ich glaube, dass mein Deutsch ganz gut ist.
I meant, can you translate?
He's saying that of all European Union laws, the European Parliament is involved in 75% of them.
Well, he hasn't said anything about that.
It's nothing to do with European influence on British law.
Bitteschön.
Hello and welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service.
I'm Ruth Alexander and this week we'll be exploring which is the biggest killer – war or misogyny?
Recently on his show, American TV chat host Bill Maher quoted from journalist Nicholas Kristof's book Half the Sky.
One of our loyal listeners from India was watching this and she was surprised.
She got in touch with us to see if we would investigate.
Saranya, it is an incredible statistic.
And here at More or Less, it is precisely that sort of dramatic claim that sets our alarm bells ringing.
So Charlotte MacDonald has been investigating.
Charlotte, what have you found?
100 million missing women.
That's a huge number.
That is shocking.
People have calculated that there are 100 million missing women and then we're comparing that to how many men have died in wars in the 20th century.
So how many men died in wars in the 20th century?
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