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Jessie J shot to fame when she won the 麻豆社 Sound Of 听Poll and the Brits Critics Choice Award in 2011, quickly followed by her debut album Who You Are. She shot to instant chart success with in your face hit Do It Like A Dude and bold challenging image, and she鈥檚 been a cheerleader for self-belief in her own career and in mentoring others on TV鈥檚 The Voice. However she鈥檚 also had to work hard and overcome her own personal hurdles to get where she is today 鈥� not least a heart condition, and subsequent bullying as a child. She鈥檚 just left The Voice to concentrate on her own singing career, and so, as she prepares to release a new studio album and announces her new single 听It鈥檚 My Party, she joins Woman鈥檚 Hour to talk about the struggles she鈥檚 faced, being a role model and mentor, and the self-belief and talent that鈥檚 helped her make it to the top.

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Jessie J鈥檚 new single It鈥檚 My Party is out on 16 September, and her new album is out soon. She鈥檚 playing the VFestival and the iTunes Festival in August, and goes on a nationwide arena tour from October.

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People wanting to bring employment tribunals must now pay a fee for the first time since they were created in the 1960s. Woman鈥檚 Hour investigates how these charges could affect women workers in cases of sexual discrimination or sexual harassment. Karen Jennings, assistant general secretary of Unison, and Cathy Rogan, rights advisor from Working Families, join guest presenter, Emma Barnett, to talk about their concerns.

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Women鈥檚 cricket is enjoying unprecedented profile and popularity. The England team are one of the best in the world and the Women鈥檚 Ashes Series will be televised when it starts on the 11th August. But the women鈥檚 game also has a surprisingly long and colourful history, full of vicious competition and dazzling displays of sporting skill. Emma Barnett talks to leading cricketer Isabelle Duncan, who has brought some of these stories to light in her new book 鈥淪kirting the Boundary: A History of Women鈥檚 Cricket鈥�.

Skirting the Boundary: A History of Women's Cricket by Isabelle Duncan is published by Robson Press.

Have German women got it made? Writer Bee Rowlatt and Barbara Klimke,听UK Correspondent听at the newspaper Berliner Zeitung, debate the pros and cons of German life. When Bee Rowlatt moved to Germany she discovered cheap, excellent childcare, and generous tax breaks for stay-at-home mums. But, as she tells Emma Barnett, there is a darker side to this, for example the characterisation of women who do work as heartless 鈥渞aven mothers鈥�. Bee and her husband Justin took their two youngest children to the manufacturing city of Nuremberg to try to discover the secret of Germany鈥檚 success by living, working and socialising like an average German family.

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The 麻豆社 Two programme 鈥淢ake Me a German鈥�, which follows their experience, airs on 麻豆社 Two, at 9pm on Tuesday 6th August.听