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Sacked from her job by voicemail the day after she informed her employer she was pregnant Joeli Brearley set up Pregnant Then Screwed to end pregnancy and maternity discrimination. The charity has helped to influence new flexible working and redundancy protection laws, providing advice to hundreds of thousands of women when they face discrimination and challenging employers and government in high profile cases. After ten years Joeli is stepping down as CEO. She joins Nuala McGovern in the Woman's Hour studio.

The United States goes to the polls one week today and presidential candidates are campaigning furiously, with the two frontrunners being the Democratic nominee and current Vice President, Kamala Harris and the Republican nominee and former President, Donald Trump. As a programme, we鈥檙e taking a look at whether there鈥檚 such a thing as the 鈥榯he woman鈥檚 vote'. How are different groups of women likely to vote and why? Nuala speaks to Kathy Frankovic, Consultant to YouGov America and former director of surveys for CBS News and Debbie Walsh, Director of the Centre for Women and American Politics at Rutgers University.

Last night鈥檚 2024 Ballon d鈥橭r Awards in Paris saw the Ballon d鈥橭r Feminin award go to Aitana Bonmati for the second year in a row, and former Chelsea coach Emma Hayes win Women鈥檚 Coach of the Year. We hear from 大象传媒 Women鈥檚 Football reporter Emma Sanders for a round-up.

Rae Mainwaring was only 23 when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Since then she's gone on to be a successful writer and theatre maker, and a mother of two children, and now her play Bright Places, about growing up in the shadow of a chronic illness is being staged at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. She joins us in the Woman's Hour studio.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern
Producer: Kirsty Starkey