21/03/2011

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Jane Garvey presents. Is the kitchen now the most important room in the house? We look at how the kitchen's changed from being a functional room for preparing food to the main family living area. Following the recent revolution in Egypt how difficult is it now going to be for Egyptian women to liberate themselves, as they've helped liberate their own society from dictatorship? There has been an increasing worldwide focus on the role of men in families, evident in the rise of the availability of paternity leave but according to a new book by the United Nations, policy makers have been slow to recognise the need for effective public policy supporting men's roles and we hear about the Suffragettes and the 1911 census.