17/08/2017

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Is the way we treat boys and girls the real reason we haven't achieved equality between men and women? Yesterday the first episode of No More Boys and Girls; Can our kids go gender free? went out on BBC-2 - and it'll be a subject of a phone on Monday's programme. Dr Javid Abdelmoneim and Executive Producer Helen Veale join Jenni to talk about whether stripping away the pink and blue will change the way a class of seven year-olds think. Author and journalist, Brigid Keenan was nearly seven years old when Indian Independence and Partition were declared. Seventy years later she recalls the impact of those events on her family who had to leave India after a century of India being home. One of Britain's best-known social historians, Juliet Gardiner tells Jenni about the span of women's lives from the Second World War to the mid-1980s. Using episodes from her own life she illuminates the broader social and feminist history over the past six decades, including the changing attitude towards birth, adoption, education, motherhood and work. Recent research shows that 1 in 3 households now have a cleaner. Jenni talks to columnist Angela Epstein about why despite having a cleaner herself she feels guilty - but doesn't feel others should and to social historian Helen McCarthy who'll explain why it's something women have struggled with in different ways throughout the last century. Presenter; Jenni Murray Producer; Beverley Purcell.