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Have you ever been groped? How did you, or how would you, respond? Last week a woman at 听in West London was left needing hospital treatment after she was physically attacked by a man she challenged for sexually assaulted her. So should you speak out, or are you in danger of making a bad situation worse? And with high-profile women like being told they are at fault after their听 intimate photos were stolen and published online, is there a wider issue of victim-blaming when it comes to women鈥檚 bodies? Jenni is joined by 听Laura Bates and columnist Rosamund Urwin.

After completing a biography on Russian author Leo Tolstoy, Rosamund Bartlett felt the time was right to embark on a translation of his classic novel Anna Karenina.听But how have our expectations of what constitutes a good read changed since Anna Karenina was first published in 1878? How have both the Russian and English languages evolved?听 And what do modern readers make of Anna, the troubled heroine? Rosamund joins Jenni to discuss the challenges of taking on one of the world鈥檚 best loved novels.

Office picnics, like work outings, seem to be a thing of the past.听Now, if colleagues do eat together it will be a snatched shared sandwich at their desk, or, at best a hastily salad in the nearest overcrowded park.听But it needn鈥檛 be like that. In the last of our series on picnics Catherine Carr went to meet the chef听Alex Rushmer听as he prepared an听office picnic for the staff at Psychology Online.

In an upcoming 大象传媒 2 documentary, Egypt's Lost Queens, Professor Joann Fletcher explores important female figures ranging from Queen Hetapheres in the age of the pyramids, through to Nefertari - who has probably the most spectacular tomb of all in the Valley of the Queens. Arguing that women could rule ancient Egypt, Joann joins Jenni to discuss a culture that placed women and female gods at the very heart of its story.

Young women are struggling to get into low paid, oversubscribed jobs, such as hairdressers or nursery works, even though they had been guided by various careers advisors to train for the roles. Many end up unemployed and out of education.

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We talk to Chief Executive of The 听Carole Easton about the damaging affect this stereotyping job advice has on their future careers and the problems faced by young women out of work.