Judith Suminwa Tuluka has been appointed the first ever female prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A former planning minister, she’s relatively unknown – so what does this mean for the DRC, and the women who live there? Emma finds out more about the new prime minister with BBC Monitoring’s Alison Onyango and the co-founder of a DRC NGO, Anny Modi.
How did 77 women from the same Cambridge college end up working at Bletchley Park during the war? Dr Sally Waugh, an alumna of women-only Newnham College, has uncovered a previously unknown contingent of female codebreakers and other staff who were recruited to conduct top secret work as undergraduates. Emma speaks to her to find out more.
A new documentary film, Girls State, spotlights the girls hoping they will become the first female President of the United States. It follows a real-life mock government programme attended by teenage girls in Missouri. The American Legion, who run the programmes, hold separate programmes for boys and girls in all fifty states in the US. Emma is joined by the film-maker Amanda McBain and Emily Worthmore, one of the girls who stands for Governor, the highest position in the mock government.
Games writer and author Holly Gramazio’s debut novel explores a world where an endless supply of husbands emerges from the attic. But when you can change husbands as easily as a lightbulb, how do you know when to stick with the one you’ve got? Holly joins Emma, live in the Woman’s Hour studio.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lottie Garton
Co-parenting, Homelessness and women, Dr Jessica Taylor
Sex and choking, Online Abuse and work, Plastic pollution
Boys, Lyra McKee, Perinatal suicide, South African elections
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Zeinab Badawi, Fisherman Ashley Mullenger, Stalking, Singing and periods
Weinstein conviction overturned, Fishing, Comeuppance, Ballet pumps
BRCA1, Open relationships, Wrongly Accused: The Annette Hewins Story
Zeinab Badawi, Singing and periods, How is the debate over abortion shaping the US election?
Kitty Ruskin's year of casual sex, The Girls of Slender Means, ARFID
Peres Jepchirchir, Rhianon Bragg and stalking, Nitazenes, Tortured poets
Woman's Hour special: Breaking The Cycle
Weekend Woman's Hour: Ruth Wilson, Young women and voting, Jing Lusi
Solitude, Apprentice winner Rachel Woolford, Personal space, Kids and smartphones
Ruth Wilson, periods and concussion, Ashley Storrie on BBC comedy Dinosaur, sewing for mental health
Cricketer Nat Sciver-Brunt, Smacking, Hypochondria, Police drama Blue Lights, Soul Sisters Pakistan
Hollywood film producer Deborah Snyder, Young women and voting, Machinal star Rosie Sheehy
Jing Lusi, Fatal stabbings in Sydney, Australia, Declaration of the Rights of the Child
Weekend Woman's Hour: Juliet open letter, Vogue’s Chioma Nnadi, Female Psychopath
Marian Keyes, Juliet open letter, Swiss climate victory
Gloria Steinem at 90, Rebecca Ferguson, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
The Cass Review, Back to Black, Female Psychopath
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