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On All Things Considered this week (Sunday 6 March at 9am repeated on Thursday 10 March at 5.30am), Roy Jenkins and guests discuss the changing roles of women in church and society.

For the centenary of International Women's Day this week, events in Wales, as across the world, will be celebrating the achievements of women.

In politics and sport, in business, academia and the media, they've made advances which might barely have been imagined by their great great grandmothers.

Yet for every one who's reached the dizzying heights, many more, it is argued are trapped by low expectations, family responsibilities and by the continued vigour of the belief that society's natural leaders will always be male.

How true is this perception? Just how important is the issue? And with Christian churches hosting some very public squabbles over the place of women, what does religion bring to the argument?

Joining Roy Jenkins for the discussion are: Dr Elaine Storkey, President of the relief agency Tearfund, who has written extensively on feminist theology; Professor Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, world expert in palliative medicine and life peer, Mary Stallard who is an Anglican priest in the St.Asaph diocese and Edna Speed, from the charity 'Save the Family', which is one of the largest homeless family charities in the UK, which she founded and still chairs.

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