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Looking at the lives of women around the world
Award-winning screen director Tope Oshin celebrates a new generation of Nigerian women film-makers who are currently reinventing Nollywood,...
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...
Indonesia has just conducted its first ever national survey on domestic violence. It found that 41% of women had experienced some form of do...
Rates of domestic violence in the Peruvian Andes are particularly high - nearly double the national average. The shocking case of violence a...
Unity is a village without men set up by Samburu women in response to domestic abuse. Claire Bolderson reports from three different countrie...
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....
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...
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...
Among the women that history overlooked are Yelena Malyutina, Queen Muhumuza, Dame Janet Vaughan, Rosalind Franklin, Nazma Akter, Sizani Ngu...
In 2004, Kenyan Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was an environmentalist and human rights ac...
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 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 is being called the greatest gymnast of all time, a sporting superstar who stunned audiences at the Rio Olympics. But now, at 1...
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...
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...
The working life of Denmark's Tine Bryld, a radio personality, social worker and writer recently voted the country's most important woman in...
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 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...
Two presidential speech writers reveal their top tips for crafting a really memorable speech. Sarada Peri is Special Assistant and Senior Sp...
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...
Bouncer, mechanic, taxi driver and firefighter - just some of the jobs being done by women in India today. Divya Arya meets some of the wome...
In 2002, the French Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt became perhaps one of the best-known hostages in the world when she was kidnapped...
Akwasi Sarpong visits Uganda’s thriving coding scene, to find out if home-grown, technology-based solutions can help tackle some of the coun...
Bola Mosuro travels to Ghana to meet the women who are making their mark in the male dominated world of technology, and inspiring young girl...
The Syrian province of Deir Ezzor was taken over by Islamic State militants a year ago. A former teacher explains how she's expected to beha...
American high school student, Delaney Osborne explains the pressure she feels to behave in a certain way. Delaney is 17 years old, pregnant,...
22-year-old Lubov Russkina from the nomadic Khanty tribe in western Siberia explains to Olga Ivshina from the BBC Russian service what it me...
Is a relationship more or less likely to fail when a woman is successful? When is it right to put career aspirations on the back burner - to...
Why aren't there more women in leadership roles - why do men still seem to be ahead, particularly in the corporate world? Are quotas the way...
How important is image? Are beautiful woman more likely to succeed? What has led to so many turning to plastic surgery? Does self improvemen...
Anu Anand speaks to three women in Delhi with very different experiences of life in this male-dominated country which hint at the big change...
James Fletcher travels to one of America’s poorest cities to meet a passionate group of people working hard to get young, black women into t...
Dr Comfort Momoh is a campaigner against the practice of female genital mutilation. She currently runs the African Well Woman’s clinic at Gu...
A Nigerian journalist, Hauwa Yusuf, and student, Abigail Olaley, discuss their arrival and making a life in the UK. Marvina Babs-Apata says...
Meet Maria Bueno who left El Salvador as a teen and now runs five businesses and a working mother who heads up communications for one of the...
Fatou Bensouda’s quest for justice began as a young girl in Gambia she was disturbed by the plight of a female relative who suffered domesti...
At the age of 18 and speaking barely a word of English, Izabella Brodzinska arrived in Edinburgh in 1957 to live with the father she had nev...
Hilary Swank has won Best Actress Academy Awards for her roles in Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby. Rajini Vaidyanathan discusses her...
Sania Mirza started playing tennis at the age of 6 and has gone on to become one of the most prominent names in the women’s game. She is con...
The Japanese Prime Minister has promised that within five years, around a third of all Japanese executives will be women. How achievable is...
Nomsa Maseko talks to make-up entrepreneur Bobbi Brown about starting out in 1980s New York and her three-decade career developing the clean...
Alek Wek is a model who spent years of her life fleeing from civil war in South Sudan. She talks to Anne Soy about being a model, life as a...
Two nurses who care around the clock for the sick and dying in Uganda and Singapore, discuss their priorities and experiences. Hear from Ros...
London’s midwives deliver babies born to mothers from around the world. Smitha Mundasad talks to those who provide care for mothers in one o...
How does the news serve and represent women? And why, in some countries, do women reject traditional news media for news on social media? A...
Aasmah Mir hosts an intimate and revealing discussion between three women from the Jamaican diaspora in Handworth, a suburb of Birmingham. E...
Aasmah Mir hosts an intimate and revealing discussion between three women from the Bangladeshi diaspora in east London. Shaheen Choudhury We...