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
Misogyny in the music industry, author Lisa St Aubin de Terán, cervical smears
Fasting and women, Conscription, Cuteness exhibition
Long Covid, Professor Jo Phoenix tribunal victory, Paying children for chores
Lauren Sequeira, Rape misconceptions, Singer Julia Bullock
Long Covid, Holocaust Memorial Day, Princess Superstar
Claire Waxman, Victims' Bill, China birth rate, D-Mer Study, Academy Award nominations
Professor Jo Phoenix tribunal victory, Actor Sarah Greene
DJ Paulette, Abortion, Vinted co-founder, Childcare
Weekend Woman's Hour: Jodie Comer, Vicky McClure, Jameela Jamil
Vicky McClure, Mean Girls, Women’s Health Strategy update
Jodie Comer, Olivia Attwood, Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Jameela Jamil, Claudia Winkleman, Abortion buffer zones, Female Israel border soldiers
Having more children after 40, Gladiators, Nikki Hayley profile
Domestic abuse and brain injury, Calvin Klein advert, Exhaustion
Weekend Woman’s Hour - Cush Jumbo, Spice Girls Stamp, Assisted Dying
Quarterlife crisis, Family Courts, Northern Soul
Zara Aleena's aunt, Spice Girls stamps, surge in scabies
Cosmetic surgery reviews, Speed dating, Bangladesh elections, Assisted dying & palliative care
Midwife shortages, Dating at 81, Jackie Mag anniversary
Cush Jumbo, Church leader survivors, Exonerated sub-postmistress
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