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Are young men today fully at ease living with successful, independent women? For women who want children there’s a theory that the career progress of this next generation of women depends not just on the openings they carve out for themselves, but equally on the attitudes of the men they choose as their  partners. So, have mothers who’ve taken feminism for granted raised their sons to have notably different attitudes? Sheila talks to James Morton, 2012 Great British Bake Off Finalist now studying to be a surgeon, Aaron Tinney, editor of ‘Loaded’ the men’s lifestyle magazine, and to internet vlogger, Jim Chapman, about what men really think as they try to map out careers, relationships and life ambitions going forward.  

For many of us our new year’s resolution will probably be the same as it was last year… to get fit and do more exercise. And this probably means a trip to a sportswear retailer. But what if you’re not the average size woman? (which is a size 16 in the UK). When you get to the larger sizes there seems to be very little on offer except shapeless tops & bottoms in cheap fabrics.  With growing concern about obesity, and more people encouraged to do exercise why isn’t more sportswear aimed at larger women? Sheila is joined by Jenny Blacker, who says she finds shopping for sportswear in larger sizes completely demotivating and Kerensa Sheen – founder of State of Mind, sportswear for sizes 14-28. 

With nearly 18 million followers, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church's thought to be the most popular of the ‘new religions’ today and yet far less is generally known about it than rival movements, such as the Mormons. The Adventists were founded by a woman, Ellen White, on whose visions the church’s teachings are based. These included a number of strict health messages forbidding followers to smoke tobacco or drink alcohol whilst also encouraging them to avoid meat and salt. Her writings are still adhered to today, and in Adventist communities in America, followers of the religion have been proven to live a startling ten years longer than the national average. Sheila talks to Laura Vance, author of ‘Seventh Day Adventism in Crisis’, she teaches sociology at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina, and to Linda Woodhead, Professor of Religion and Society at Lancaster University, about  Ellen White and other notable female charismatics.