Nigeria: Shooting it Like a Woman
Award-winning screen director Tope Oshin celebrates a new generation of Nigerian women film-makers who are currently reinventing Nollywood,...
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100 Women
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20 of 47 episodesC-Section Brazil
Brazil is the C-section capital of the world. In a country where caesareans account for over half of all births and 88% in the private secto...
Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Abuse in Indonesia
Indonesia has just conducted its first ever national survey on domestic violence. It found that 41% of women had experienced some form of do...
Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Violence in Peru
Rates of domestic violence in the Peruvian Andes are particularly high - nearly double the national average. The shocking case of violence a...
Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Abuse in Kenya
Unity is a village without men set up by Samburu women in response to domestic abuse. Claire Bolderson reports from three different countrie...
Aymara and the Ants
All over the world women hold families together, work hard all hours of the day and have little power to change their lives for the better....
Life, Death and Cheerleading
Sun City is one of America's biggest retirement communities and home to the Poms, a group of amazing women aged between 55 and 85. We follow...
Life, Death and Cheerleading
Sun City is one of America's biggest retirement communities and home to the Poms, a group of amazing women aged between 55 and 85. We follow...
Women's History Hour
Among the women that history overlooked are Yelena Malyutina, Queen Muhumuza, Dame Janet Vaughan, Rosalind Franklin, Nazma Akter, Sizani Ngu...
When Wangari Maathai Won the Nobel Peace Prize
In 2004, Kenyan Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was an environmentalist and human rights ac...
The Taboo of Feminism
Why is feminism still regarded by many as a word to avoid? Despite an ongoing gender pay gap, and a lack of female business leaders, why doe...
Rachida Dita: the 100 Women Interview
Rachida Dati is a Member of the European Parliament and a Paris mayor. One of twelve children from a devout French/Moroccan Muslim family, h...
Simone Biles: 100 Women Interview
Simone Biles is being called the greatest gymnast of all time, a sporting superstar who stunned audiences at the Rio Olympics. But now, at 1...
Jobs for the Girls - Part Two
Women from rural parts of India are bucking the trend and working in jobs traditionally done by men. In Rajasthan, Divya Arya drops in at th...
Shriti Vedara: the 100 Women Interview
Chairwoman of Santander UK, Shriti Vadera is a leading voice in British business and as shining example of what can be achieved. Born in Uga...
Tine Bryld, Danish Radio Personality
The working life of Denmark's Tine Bryld, a radio personality, social worker and writer recently voted the country's most important woman in...
Women's Rugby Pioneers
In 1996, England won the inaugural Home Nations championship in women's rugby. It was a major victory in the English players' fight for offi...
Alicia Keys: My Motivation and Inspiration
Alicia Keys started writing music at 15 years of age and her first album, recorded when she was only 19, won a record five Grammy awards. Sh...
Speech Writer to the President
Two presidential speech writers reveal their top tips for crafting a really memorable speech. Sarada Peri is Special Assistant and Senior Sp...
Candela: The Lives of Cuban Women
From a Bolero concert to a cancer ward, and from the apartment of a guy who helps Cubans get foreign visas to an Afro-Cuban Santeria ceremon...
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