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On the 24 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a leadership ballot. The next day she became Australia's 27th prime minister and their first female leader. Three years and three days later she too was ousted. Julia joins Jane to talk about the pressures of leading a nation, the now infamous anti-misogyny speech directed at her opposition leader, Tony Abbott, and her motivation in publicly dissecting such a turbulent period in her political life.

Ruby Tandoh was a finalist in The Great British Bake Off 2013 which she entered aged twenty whilst studying for her first year exams in history of art and philosophy at UCL.Ìý Now aged 22 she’s just published her first cookery book ‘Crumb, The Baking Book’.Ìý A quote from Sylvia Plath in the introduction toÌýher book is a good description of Ruby herself : “Instead of studying Locke, for instance, or writing — I go make an apple pie.’’ She admits that while reading for her course she can get distracted and start leafing through her cookbooks. During the 2013 Bake Off she was aggressively trolled on Twitter.Ìý She joins Jane to talk about her obsession with baking, why she thinks women have aÌýtougher time on the show and she shares her recipe for the

Fringe events take place away from the main conference stage, where politicians and party members gather with the experts and interested parties to thrash out some of the important issues. Much of the discussion about the women’s vote focuses on young women struggling with childcare. Woman’s Hour went to yesterday’s fringe at the Conservative Party Conference on ‘what women want’, to hear why many feel that the key issues will be those facing older women, especially those struggling with caring responsibilities – the so-called ‘sandwich generation’.

Who takes the wheel in your relationship? And does literally being in the driving seat reveal something more profound about who’s in control?

Official statistics show that men are still more likely to be the main driver of a household car. But why? Jane talks driving politics with motoring journalists Vicki Butler-Henderson and Erin Baker.

When Loretta Saunders went missing last February, she was working on her degree thesis on the missing and murdered aboriginal women of Canada. Indigenous people make up 4.3% of the country’s women, but account for 16% of female homicides and 11% of missing women.

Loretta, who came from an Inuit family, was found two weeks after she disappeared, murdered and dumped in a ditch. Now more than 300,000 people have signed a petition calling for a public inquiry into why indigenous women are so much more likely to be killed or go missing.

Jane speaks to Holly Jarrett, who started the petition and is Loretta Saunders’ cousin.

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