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Woman's Hour: Sterilisation in Your Twenties

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05/02/2015

Sterilisation in Your Twenties

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Sterilisation in Your Twenties

Women and Jobseeker's Allowance, sterilisation in your twenties and Joanne Mjadzelics.

Jobseeker's Allowance helping women back into work, Eartha Kitt on her life, sterilisation in your twenties, and Joanne Mjadzelics on trying to bring Ian Watkins to justice.

Is Jobseeker's Allowance helping women back into work? Amanda Ariss, Chief Executive of the Equality and Diversity Forum who chaired an inquiry into the impact of changes in welfare benefits on women discusses its findings. 

From the Woman's Hour archive collection, Eartha Kitt on her life and music. 

Sterilisation in your 20s - Should a woman in her twenties be given a sterilisation on the NHS if she has decided that she never wants children? Susanna Starling, a mum of one says that sterilisation in your 20s should be discouraged. Holly Brockwell aged 29 has been refused sterilisation four times. Helen Kara, now aged 50, was sterilised aged 30 and has never regretted it.

What Plaid Cymru is doing to get more women elected on May 7th.

Joanne Mjadzelics, ex-lover of convicted paedophile Ian Watkins talks about meeting the Lostprophets singer and how she tried to bring him to justice. 

Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Rebecca Myatt.

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