Woman's Hour Folgen

Tash Speed, 25, is one of 20 women who work as a Eurotunnel driver in the UK. recently appearing on the BBC2 documentary celebrating its 25th anniversary. Originally a financial advisor, she retrained in a vigorous driving and engineering course with a 90% fail rate. What are the unique challenges of driving trains for the busiest rail system in the world, which includes operating the “dead man’s pedal”?Andrea Catherwood speaks to Grainne Teggart, from Amnesty Northern Ireland and writer, Siobhan Fenton. What are the key issues for women in Northern Ireland in the upcoming General Election?After a long campaign from #FreePeriods, the Government agreed to fund a scheme to ensure all primary and secondary schools and colleges provided free period products to menstruating pupils. This was meant to start rolling out in September 2019 but has now been pushed back to January 2020. It is an opt-in scheme and so schools and colleges must sign up to receive free sanitary products. Gemma Abbott is a campaigner for FreePeriods and volunteer from the charity The Red Box Project, and Nadia Collier is a family support worker at a primary school in London, who has first-hand experience of how important these free period products can be.Most Wikipedia profiles are of men. A British physicist has made it her mission to change that, adding pages for more than 800 women in STEM. But who really decides who is notable enough to be included in the encyclopedia? Dr Jess Wade explains her quest for diversity and equality online, and the real-life impact it can have on the careers of women scientists. Presenter: Andrea Catherwood Producer: Kirsty StarkeyInterviewed Guest: Grainne Teggart Interviewed Guest: Siobhan Fenton Interviewed Guest: Tash Speed Photographer: Matthew Wheeler Interviewed Guest: Gemma Abbott Interviewed Guest: Nadia Collier Interviewed Guest: Dr Jess Wade

How do you raise multilingual children? And what happens when your first language isn't very common where you live? Language is one of the things that can help you stay connected to your heritage but raising a child to speak two or more languages can be harder than it sounds. We hear from two Nigerian mums: one who speaks Igala and the other Yoruba.

With us this morning are five leading women from political parties, ready to debate the issues that are important to you in this General Election. We want to hear from you. If you’d like to ask a question you can call us on 03700 100 444. And on social media you can join the debate on twitter @bbcwomanshour using the hashtag #whdebate. Or you can email us via the website. Jane Garvey will be putting those questions to Helen Whately, Minister for Arts, Heritage and Tourism and Conservative Candidate; Laura Pidcock, Shadow Secretary for Employment Rights and Labour Party candidate for Durham North West; Dr Sarah Wollaston, Liberal Democrat candidate, Deidre Brock, candidate for the Scottish National Party and Belinda de Lucy, Brexit Party MEP for South East England.