Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
2273 episodes transcribedBernadine Evaristo’s bestseller Girl, Woman, Other is on plenty of reading lists after winning the 2019 Booker Prize, but what books are getting her t...
Naomi Campbell is an actress, an innovator, an icon, an activist, and a philanthropist who’s been at the summit of the fashion industry for over three...
Self-employed women are receiving less government support during coronavirus if they’ve taken maternity leave between April 2016 and March 2019 – beca...
Some reports suggest the government won’t now go ahead with the reform of the Gender Recognition Act. If true, this means that people won’t be able to...
As two black British women writers – Bernadine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge - top the UK fiction and non-fiction book charts for the first time, Jane...
The scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie is recognised throughout the world but how much do you really know about her and her ground breaking Nobel prize...
Candice Brathwaite set up the group called Make Motherhood Diverse in order to set right a wrong. When pregnant, she didn't recognise anything in book...
A picture is slowly emerging of what has happened to women’s personal finances since the Covid 19 pandemic began. The debt advice charity, Step Change...
Fear of becoming homeless is one of the factors that stops women leaving an abusive relationship. That’s according to the charity Women’s Aid which ca...
We look at the first UK study into the physical, emotional and financial abuse of some grandparents who are looking after their grandchildren as part...
Harriet Harman MP, raises concerns about the current treatment of mothers in prison during Covid-19 and the impact on their children and family life.....
The US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody. George Floyd, 46, died after being arres...
Carol Cooper was awarded Nursing’s Diversity and Inclusion Champion of the Year award in 2019, she is a Regional NHS Head of equality, diversity and h...
As we move to ease lockdown restrictions in this country, and look ahead to the “new normal”, there are a large number of people who are still very mu...
While the world has gone into lockdown and economies have crashed, one type of business has been seeing double-digit growth – direct selling. Independ...
The US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody. George Floyd, 46, died after being arres...
More from our series that celebrates the women who get things done – the Troupers. They're very bad at blowing their own trumpets so we're doing it f...
An editorial in the British Medical Journal reported that one in five harmful and dependent drinkers got the help they needed, and now the proportion...
It’s fifty years since the Equal Pay Act became law, though employers were given a couple of years to prepare for the change to take effect. The legis...
Last week an editorial in the BMJ reported that before Covid-19 only one in five harmful and dependent drinkers got the help they needed, and now the...
