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Radio 4,24 Apr 2013,58 mins

Older Women and Style; Women's Unemployment; Politics of Sex Work

Woman's Hour

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Equality campaigners the Fawcett Society warn women face rising unemployment and a widening pay gap. We talk about the politics of sex work with Andrea Matolcsi from Equality Now and Molly, a Glasgow sex worker. Older women and dressing with style - glamorous, outrageous or dowdy? Blanche Marvin, theatre critic, journalist Katherine Whitehorn, and Amber Jane Butchart, lecturer at the London College of Fashion discuss being confident with style. Mary Beth Keane on her book about Typhoid Mary. Bringing up a teen in your 50s and 60s - does it make a difference how old you are? Parenting Expert, Sue Atkins, and by Yvonne Roberts, Chief leader writer at the Observer and mother of two give their opinion. Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Louise Corley.

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