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Is it ever ok to comment on a female co-workers appearance? Does it diminish their professional accomplishments? Alice Revel, Founder and Editor in Chief of women online magazine 鈥楻unning in Heels鈥� and Patricia Hind, an Organisational Behaviour specialist, both join Jane Garvey to discuss their experiences and thoughts on compliments.

Chosen as one of the 100 most powerful women on the Woman鈥檚 Hour Power List, Gail Rebuck has been chair and chief executive of the Random House Group, one of the largest general book publishing companies in the UK. This year Random House won the Publisher of the Year accolade at the Industry Awards聽 following a record breaking year.聽聽 Gail Rebuck is also one of the prime movers behind the merger taking place between Random House and Penguin which will make them the largest book publisher in the world.聽聽 Eighteen months ago, Gail Rebuck鈥檚 husband, Lord聽 (Philip) Gould, died after four years of living with cancer.聽 He chose to be very open about his cancer and his impending death.聽 As part of our Power list interviews, Jane went to the Random House headquarters to talk to Gail about her professional and personal life.

More than 1 in 10 children and young people aged 5-16 are said to suffer from a diagnosable mental health issue in Britain. On Monday鈥檚 programme, Jane will discuss why this figure is so high and what help is available for children and teenagers. Her guests will be Dr Andrew Rogers, a consultant clinical psychologist at the McGuinness Unit in Manchester and a mother whose daughter has mental health problems, including hallucinations and self-harming. We'll also look ahead to a new three-part series called 鈥淒on鈥檛 Call Me Crazy鈥� which starts on 麻豆社 3 at 9pm on Monday night.

The education of girls and women in Pakistan became worldwide news last year after Malala Yousafzai, 14 years old at the time, was shot in the head coming home from school; a target because of her call for access to education for women in Pakistan. And then last Saturday the issue was again brought to global attention when a in Quetta in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. We hear from Sana Bahsir, a student who should had been on the bus then Jane speaks to Shahzeb Jillani to talk about the effect of this kind of attack.

Research by the shows that parents in the UK face some of the highest childcare bills in the world. Many who are in full time work spend more on childcare than they do on mortgages or rent, whilst others fall into debt just to afford the childcare. This week we're looking at the economics of childcare - why it costs so much and what can be done to reduce the burden on parents. Today Jane hears from parents who've struggled with ever-increasing costs, and from Vidhya Alakeson of , which has carried out research looking at how much a second earner needs to get paid to be better off if paying for childcare, and how the government could extend childcare support for low to middle income families to make work pay.