100 Women
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100 Women
Looking at the lives of women around the world
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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, the larges...
C-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 sector. BBC cor...
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 domestic abu...
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 against Arl...
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 countries:...
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. To make th...
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 the Poms...
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 the Poms...
Women's History Hour
Among the women that history overlooked are Yelena Malyutina, Queen Muhumuza, Dame Janet Vaughan, Rosalind Franklin, Nazma Akter, Sizani Ngubane, Sali...
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 activist who...
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 does the word...
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, her rise ha...
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 19, she is...
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 the Barefoot...
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 Uganda into a...
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 a century...
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 official recog...
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. She talks ab...
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 Speechwriter...
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 ceremony, reporte...
Jobs for the Girls - Part One
Bouncer, mechanic, taxi driver and firefighter - just some of the jobs being done by women in India today. Divya Arya meets some of the women who are...
An Extraordinary Meeting Between Two Former Hostages
In 2002, the French Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt became perhaps one of the best-known hostages in the world when she was kidnapped and held...
Young, Geeky and Black: Kampala
Akwasi Sarpong visits Uganda’s thriving coding scene, to find out if home-grown, technology-based solutions can help tackle some of the country’s big...
Young, Geeky and Black: Accra
Bola Mosuro travels to Ghana to meet the women who are making their mark in the male dominated world of technology, and inspiring young girls to follo...
What is a 'good girl' - in Syria?
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 behave under t...
What is a good girl - in Winsconsin, USA?
American high school student, Delaney Osborne explains the pressure she feels to behave in a certain way. Delaney is 17 years old, pregnant, and livin...
What is a 'good girl' - in Siberia, Russia?
22-year-old Lubov Russkina from the nomadic Khanty tribe in western Siberia explains to Olga Ivshina from the BBC Russian service what it means to be...
Debate: Relationships
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 bring up...
Debate: Leadership
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 to addres...
Debate: Image
How important is image? Are beautiful woman more likely to succeed? What has led to so many turning to plastic surgery? Does self improvement come fro...
Business: India's changing gender balance
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 in the ge...
Young, Geeky and Black: Memphis
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 technology...
Health: Dr Comfort Momoh, midwife and FGM campaigner
Dr Comfort Momoh is a campaigner against the practice of female genital mutilation. She currently runs the African Well Woman’s clinic at Guys and St...
Home: Nigeria
A Nigerian journalist, Hauwa Yusuf, and student, Abigail Olaley, discuss their arrival and making a life in the UK. Marvina Babs-Apata says that she d...
Business: Stories from the US Workforce
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 biggest p...
Interview: Fatou Bensouda - Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
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 domestic abuse....
Home: Poland
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 never met. Ha...
Interview: Hilary Swank - Actor
Hilary Swank has won Best Actress Academy Awards for her roles in Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby. Rajini Vaidyanathan discusses her backgroun...
Interview: Sania Mirza - Tennis Player
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 considered a...
Business: Breaking Through Japan's Glass Ceiling
The Japanese Prime Minister has promised that within five years, around a third of all Japanese executives will be women. How achievable is that? Mari...