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Age 67, back after 11 years with a new album, a US number one single called Woman’s World, and as the only artist to have had a single on the Billboard pop charts in each of the last six decades. Earlier in the week Cher joined Jenni to describe her life as a powerful female icon across these changing decades, and how her experiences as a woman have shaped her.

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Cher’s first studio album of new music in over a decade, Closer To The Truth, is out this week on Warner Bros Records, and her next single, I Hope You Find It, is out on October 28

Lads mags are pornographic, fuel sexism, breach supermarkets’ "no porn" policy and can violate equality law, according to women’s rights groups Feminista and Object.Ìý This week Caroline Lucas MP is hosted a parliamentary meeting to call on major supermarket chains to stop selling them.Ìý Caroline joined Anita Anand on MondayÌýto explain why.

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Gloria De Piero was promoted in last week's opposition reshuffle to become the shadow minister for women and equalities. The former journalist became best known as political editor of breakfast television show GMTV. She joined Jenni onÌýThursdayÌýto talk about her plans to make politics more accessible.

was set up to honour the work of the Victorian mathematician whose work was crucial to the invention of the modern computer and to encourage and celebrate women in science, technology, engineering and maths.Ìý Who are the women in STEM now and from history who we should know more about? What are the new initiatives to make information about women in STEM more available? Earlier in the week Anita AnandÌýwas joined by the Founder of Ada Lovelace Day, Sue Charman-Anderson, who champions women in tech; Sue Nelson who has written about pioneering astronomer Willamina Flemming in a new book ‘A Passion for Science’; Daria Cybulska of Wikimedia and neuropsychologist Emma Claire Palmer.

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More info on the Royal Society Women in Science Event October 2013

Women in Science Wikipedia 2013

on how women can contribute to Wikipedia

Wikipedia editing

Some of what to edit

about Scottish Women of Science

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Eight women are suing the Metropolitan Police and the Association of Chief Police Officers claiming they were tricked into long standing relationships with undercover officers. In 2010Ìý Mark Kennedy was unmasked as an undercover police officer who'd been infiltrating environmental protest groups and this has led to revelations that other officers had relationships with women they were spying on and they didn’t reveal their true identities. The women argue that the menÌý they fell in love with used them physically and emotionally. So is forming intimate relationships a legitimate part of a difficult and vital area of policing, or an abuse of power by the state? On Friday JenniÌýspokeÌýto two of the women and to Chief Constable Mick Creedon who is leading Operation Herne, an investigation into undercover policing.

This year the Campaigning Award goes to campaigner and former supermodel, Waris Dirie.Ìý Waris founded the in 2002 to fight against the worldwide practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) and provide support for women and girls subjected to the practice. Waris herself the victim of genital mutilation was born into a nomad family living in the Somali desert. At the age of 13, she fled from a forced marriage to London, where she was discovered working in a burger bar by a modelling agency scout.Ìý She went on to have a hugely successful modelling career but at the height of her career in 1997 she chose to speak for the first time about her experience of FGM and since then she has campaigned tirelessly to put an end to FGM.Ìý Anita Anand caught up with Waris just before she received her award.

, actress, singer and model, landed her first televised role in 1973 at the age of four in an advert for peas. She starred in films Absolute Beginners and Lethal Weapon 2, married rockers Jim Kerr and Liam Gallagher, and fronted the band Eighth Wonder.Ìý She returned to the small screen in 2004 with parts in Emmerdale, then Holby City.ÌýÌýOn ThursdayÌýshe shared stories of her family’s association with the Krays andÌýfilming with Elizabeth Taylor with Jenni.

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Absolute Beginner: My Story by Patsy Kensit Published 10th October 2013 Hardback £20.00.Ìý Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-283-07191-1.