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Women digging for answers from the ancient past
How gender biases have warped our understanding of history
Women making art from clay
Ceramicists Hitomi Hosono and Zemer Peled on the therapeutic quality of working with clay
Afrofuturism: Black women changing the sci-fi scene
Authors N.K. Jemisin and Chinelo Onwualu on their efforts to diversify the genre
Women running restaurants
Ana Roš and Amninder Sandhu on adapting their businesses to the constraints of Covid-19
How to focus
Conductor Kalena Bovell and pro skier Lorraine Huber on how to ‘get in the zone’
Women in law
Alexandra Wilson and Omnia Gadalla on why people practicing law need to be diverse
Women who love insects
Insect enthusiasts Jessica Ware and Carolina Barillas-Mury on why bugs matter.
How to live alone
Sreemoyee Piu Kundu and Hannah Carmichael on the benefits and challenges of solo living
Funerals and grief in a pandemic
What happens to grief when our usual rituals around death and mourning are disrupted?
Nurses on the frontline: A year on
After a year of the pandemic, how are young nurses coping?
Women fighting wildfires
A Russian volunteer and an elite US firefighter on the challenge of tackling remote fires
Women of the Arab Spring
A decade after the uprisings, what has been gained and what has been lost?
Sweet honey and queen bees
A scientist from Martinique and an entrepreneur from South Africa on why they keep bees
Sold into sex work
Trafficked women from Indonesia and Hungary on how they modern-day slaves
Skating my way through life
Why women around the world are picking up a board to try kickflips and slides.
My life-changing autism diagnosis
Sara Gibbs and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu talk about the impact of finding out they're autistic
The Conversation with Helen Clark and Michelle Bachelet
Kim Chakanetsa is ed by two international leaders who have championed women’s rights.
Living through menopause
Dr Nighat Arif and writer Barbara Hannah Grufferman think the menopause needs rebranding
Viral dance videos launched my career
Sienna Lalau and Sherrie Silver: social media routines led to working for Rihanna and BTS
Why women walk
Cheryl Strayed and Kerri Andrews on the benefits of striding out in the great outdoors
Women planting trees
Two women restoring forests in Brazil and Nepal growing native trees from local seeds
Ghostwriters for hire
Michelle Burford and Ellen Banda-Aaku on celebrity memoirs and collaborative writing
World leaders: Michelle Bachelet and Helen Clark
Michelle Bachelet and Helen Clark on their personal journeys and their career in politics
Travels with my ukulele
For Taimane and Zee Avi, playing the ukulele was love at first strum
My baby triggered a terrifying breakdown
Catherine Cho and Lobeh Osagie-Asiah on how they got through postpartum psychosis
Beauty and the skin
Two pioneering dermatologists on colourism and skin lighting in India and Ghana
A love for my language
Kim Chakanetsa speaks to two women who are keeping their indigenous languages alive
Natural-born contortionists
Two contortionists discuss their body-twisting, back-bending, mind-blowing work.
Drag kings: The women performing as men
Kim Chakanetsa speaks to two women who perform as men and poke fun at the patriarchy
What can we learn from nomadic life?
Shugri Said Salh and Carol Meeks on the resilience, bravery and peace of nomadic life
Musical theatre stars
Jemma Rix and Christine Allado discuss singing for theme parks and Covid-19 disruption
