Alice Bacon Lecture 2024/5 delivered by Naga Munchetty
On Thursday 6 February, the Alice Bacon Lecture 2024/5 was delivered by celebrated broadcaster and journalist Naga Munchetty at the University of Leeds.
The lecture, which honours the city of Leeds' first woman MP, celebrates the achievements of pioneering women and is jointly organised by the Centre for Democratic Politics and Right Honourable Rachel Reeves MP, who is also Alice Bacon's biographer.
Since the inaugural lecture in 2018, Munchetty is the sixth person to speak in the series, following in the wake of esteemed figures such as Dame Professor Mary Beard, Dame Sharon White, and Baroness Doreen Lawrence.
From left to right: Dr Richard Hayton, co-director of the Centre for Democratic Politics; Vice Chancellor Professor Shearer West; Right Hn. Rachel Reeves MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer; and Naga Munchetty, broadcaster and journalist
Munchetty delivered a powerful and rousing lecture on medical misogyny and gender inequalities in health care, speaking ahead of the publication of her book on the topic. Her talk was followed by a stimulating Q&A in which several audience members bravely recounted their own experiences of gender-based discrimination in the UK health care system.
Munchetty’s book, It's Probably Nothing: Critical Conversations on the Women’s Health Crisis, will be published by HarperCollins in May 2025.
