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Radio 4,28 May 2014,45 mins

Leyla Hussein and Nimco Ali; coding in schools; #YesAllWomen; Kate Millett

Woman's Hour

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Leyla Hussein and Nimco Ali from Daughters of Eve discuss their work as anti-FGM activists and their reaction to being named as Game Changers on the Woman's Hour Power List. Laurie Penny explains why so many women have turned to Twitter to share their experiences of harassment, fear and sexual assault under the hashtag 'YesAllWomen' as a response to the shootings by Elliot Rodger in California. From September the national curriculum will change and all children over the age of 5 will have coding lessons at state schools. So how can teachers prevent this being seen as a 'boys' subject? Joanna Rakoff talks about her job reading and responding to the fan mail of the world's most reclusive writer - Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger. Kate Millett, author of 'Sexual Politics', is considered of the pioneers of modern feminism, so why has she been largely forgotten?

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