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. There are now four more women in government than before, so聽how has the prime minister done on promoting women and is this likely to persuade more women to vote for him? Isabel Hardman, Editor of the Spectator鈥檚 Coffee House blog and Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor of the New Statesman discuss.

is a new,聽print-only quarterly feminist magazine, which aims to聽provide a radical alternative to glossy magazines.聽The first issue takes the body as its theme.聽It is created by university students聽Sadhbh O鈥橲ullivan and Kitty Drake who join Jane in the studio to discuss why they felt there was a gap in the market for a new take on the glossy.

Malala Yousafzai聽 is the 16 year old Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot her almost exactly a year ago by the Taliban because she had campaigned for聽girls' right to an education.聽She was the subject of聽 a very moving edition of Panorama last night, she鈥檚聽 written a book, with Christina Lamb, 鈥淚 am Malala鈥�,聽 and on Friday, she鈥檒l find out if she鈥檚 won the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala and her family now live in Birmingham. To many聽she is an inspiration.聽 In Pakistan, it鈥檚 not so simple as聽Aleem Maqbool explains.

From Sinead O鈥機onnor telling Miley Cyrus not to be a 鈥�, to a heated Mumsnet debate entitled 鈥�, the subject of unsolicited advice has got tempers flared in recent weeks. But who is entitled to give advice? Should you ever give advice to someone you don鈥檛 know? Jane talks to agony aunt Denise Robertson and psychologist Beverley Stone and about their experiences and strategies.

Gilda is one of the great tragic heroines of opera.聽Rigoletto鈥檚 daughter is young, beautiful, gullible and doomed.聽She dies singing of her great devotion to the seducer who betrayed her.聽So how do modern women approach the challenge of creating Gilda on stage? To coincide with , conductor Jessica Cottis talks to Jane Garvey about the challenges of conducting Verdi鈥檚 great heroines.