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Why have there never been any high profile campaigns to tackle sexism in football 鈥� unlike racism and homophobia? Jane explores the last un-tackled discrimination in football, with 大象传媒 sport correspondent Natalie Pirks, who鈥檚 unearthed footage of fans shouting sexist abuse at female team staff on the pitch.听 We also hear from the CEO of Mansfield Town, Carolyn Radford, Heather Rabbatts of the Football Association and Anna Kessel from Women in Football.

What happens when adopted children contact birth family online? As the government launches 拢19 billion of funding to help families after they鈥檝e adopted a child, we look at how social media has increased the strain on adoptive relationships and ask whether the new fund will really prevent them breaking down.听

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The obstacles facing women working in Britain鈥檚 security and intelligence agencies and how they should be tackled are outlined today in a report from Parliament鈥檚 The three-year inquiry is the first to examine gender diversity within the security services. It comes at a time when Britain鈥檚 terrorism threat level remains at severe, while MI5 is coming under increased scrutiny over its handling of the Islamic State fighter Mohammed Emwazi. Jane will be joined by ISC committee member and Labour MP Hazel Blears.

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Desiree Akhavan is a film maker and actor who is often referred to as the 鈥榥ext Lena Dunham鈥�. She stars in her new film 鈥淎ppropriate Behaviour,鈥� 听about a young Iranian American bisexual woman living in New York City, having to deal with the 听failure of her past relationship and the pressures of revealing her sexuality to her traditional family. Desiree plays the main character, Shirin, and is both Iranian and bisexual herself. 听

With HeForShe, the UN Barbershop conference and male politicians wearing 鈥淭his is what a feminist looks like t-shirts鈥� was 2014 the year of the male feminist?听Standby your Woman is a session at WOW that will look at what鈥檚 being done to teach boys and young men about gender equality. Jane will be talking to David Brockway who works for the Charity the Great Initiative and runs the which holds workshops in schools exclusively for boys, helping them to open up and talk about issues like on violence as part of the male identity, consent, homophobia and bullying, porn and representation of women in the media .