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It鈥檚 twenty years ago this September that Hillary Clinton told a United Nations conference in Beijing that 鈥渨omen's rights are human rights鈥�. Yesterday, the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation published the 鈥楴o Ceilings Report鈥� assessing what progress had been made since 1995. It鈥檚 concluded that maternal mortality rates have almost halved and almost as many girls as boys now go to primary school. However, it calls violence against women a "global epidemic", says women still earn less than men in every country, and that on average women only occupy 1 in 5 seats in national legislatures. Jane Little spoke to Chelsea Clinton about what difference she thought her family's foundation and its report could make.

Plaid Cymru held its Spring Conference in Caernarfon last week 鈥� their last before the General Election. Leader, Leanne Wood pledged to fight austerity politics and said 鈥渋t鈥檚 time Wales was a little less well behaved鈥�. Jane talks to Leanne Wood about Plaid Cymru鈥檚 offer to women voters and what sort of Westminster government they鈥檇 like to see..

Fifty years since the iconic film The Sound of Music was released, Julie Andrews reflects on her award winning career in which she has been a child performer, a Broadway star, an Oscar winning film actress and an author of children鈥檚 books. A DVD celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film has just been released and includes a new documentary in which Julie returns to Salzburg to retrace the story of the Von Trapp family.

If you鈥檙e a regular listener of Woman鈥檚 Hour, you鈥檒l have heard different women discuss the values that underpin their feminism. We look at what it means to be a Black Feminist. What separates Black feminism from mainstream feminism and is it necessary? Chardine Taylor-Stone is a writer, musician, activist and the curator of an event celebrating Black feminism that鈥檒l be at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, South London this Saturday. Heidi Mirza is a professor of Race, Faith & Culture in the Sociology department at Goldsmiths University.

Philippa Perry is a psychotherapist, author of a number of self-help books, an ex-Samaritan and has realised her dream of being an Agony Aunt. In a new 麻豆社 4 documentary, Philippa has traced the story of British agony aunts, and uncles, from their origins in the 17th century to the present day. She talks to Jane about love-bites, the appeal of advice columns, and why they still have an important role.

is being broadcast on 麻豆社 4 on Tuesday (10th) at 9pm.

This year it will be 40 years since a woman Rabbi was ordained in Britain, from the progressive wing of Judaism. Now Dina Brawer is set to become the first Orthodox Jewish woman to train to become a rabbi in a tradition that has seen women and men鈥檚 roles strictly segregated, with聽 religious ritual performed by men in the synagogue and women鈥檚 roles associated with home and raising the family. Dina describes why she has taken this step, and talks about her work as a leader of a growing world-wide Jewish Orthodox feminist movement.