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Woman's Hour: Living with an alcoholic; Graduate earnings; Japanese women

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Living with an alcoholic; Graduate earnings; Japanese women

16/08/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Living with an alcoholic; Graduate earnings; Japanese women

Why a University degree is worth more to women than to men.

Why a University degree is worth more to women than to men and imagining life below stairs in Jane Austen's England.

Why a University degree is worth much more to women than it is to men. Anne Morshead on why she decided to write about her husband's alcohol addiction. Jo Baker imagining life below stairs in Jane Austen's England. Why Japanese women struggle for equality and the women scouring the globe for the world's rarest plants. 

Presented by Jenni Murray 
Produced by Nicola Swords

Interviewed guest: Prof Ian Walker 
Interviewed guest: Anne Morshead 
Interviewed guest: Sadie Barber 
Interviewed guest: Fiona Davison 
Interviewed guest: Mariko Oi 
Interviewed guest: Dr Lola Martinez 
Interviewed guest: Jo Baker

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