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New research by the Health and Safety Executive has shown that, from the age of 25, women feel significantly more stress at work than men. We discuss workplace stress with Dr Almuth McDowell Head of Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck University and Angela Clow, Professor of Psychophysiology at the University of Westminster.

How do we get what we want from work this year? Sue Unerman joins Jane to discuss success strategies that help women renegotiate the way they work, deal with tricky conversations and make positive changes.

Vera Rubin, pioneering American astronomer whose work on galaxy rotation rates led to the theory of dark matter, died on the 25th December. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University talks about her life, work and legacy.

The top five names in the 大象传媒 Music, Sound Of 2017 List are announced this week. rap artist Nadia Rose is fifth on the list. Two years ago she was studying for a degree while working 12 hour shifts in a betting shop to make ends meet, scribbling lyrics on the back of betting slips. The south London rapper is about to release her debut EP and performs her latest single, Tight Up in the Woman's Hour studio.

As part of the Woman's Hour 70th birthday celebrations we've been mining the archive. Today, in a report first heard in 1959, two women of different generations describe their work as domestic servants.

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Erin Riley.