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The brutal rape and murder of a 23 year old woman in Delhi has sparked outrage across India and has been reported around the world. The woman in question boarded what she thought was a public bus to return home after an evening out. She was savagely beaten, gang-raped and left for the dead on the side of the road. Six suspects have since been arrested, charged and the preliminary court proceedings resume聽today. Violence against women is a common fact of life in India yet following this case women and men have taken to the streets to protest against the culture of violence. So could this be a watershed moment for women in India? Jane speaks to Vrinda Grover a human rights lawyer in Delhi.

In a journalist, Lloyd Evans, claimed that the male side of the feminist struggle has been airbrushed from history. He joins Jane Garvey and writer and broadcaster, Bea Campbell, to debate if this imbalance really exists and if Lloyd鈥檚 claim that men gave women feminism stands up historically.

All this week Woman鈥檚 Hour will be looking at singleness. Today Jane asks whether there is a best or worst age to be alone?聽 To discuss the issues, she is joined by columnist, Bryony Gordon, and Relationship coach and divorce doctor, Francine Kaye.

Rae Earl tells us how her Mad Fat Diary has made it to a television series on E4. Based on her teenage diaries they describe the tribulations of being a boy-mad, overweight Morrissey fan living with her mother in Stamford, Lincolnshire. The diary has been described as 鈥渇unnier, sadder and ruder鈥� than Adrian Mole, and it鈥檚 non-fiction. In January 1989 a 17 year-old Rae had returned home from a stay in a psychiatric ward after a nervous breakdown and the diary charts her attempts to lose weight, get a boyfriend and lose her virginity. My Mad Fat Diary is published by聽Hodder non-fiction. ISBN 978-0-340-95094-4 The TV series My Mad Fat Teenage Diary starts on E4聽on Monday 14 January at 10pm.聽

Are doctors and midwives forcing women to have unnecessary interventions when they give birth? Human rights lawyer and the chair of the new charity Elizabeth Prochaska says there is growing evidence that women are feel they are being pressed into certain treatments or interventions which are not appropriate for them or their baby.聽聽聽Jane is joined by Elizabeth and by Daghni Rajasingham, Consultant Obstetrician and an official spokesperson for