The Senator Likes Women

Amie, Stacey and Jody must wear electronic ankle bracelets and aren’t allowed out at night. If they breach their curfews, they could get sent straight to prison. Women receive 7,000 of the 60,000 tag orders that are handed out each year, and this series follows three of them. The government say they want to reduce the number of women in prison, and community orders, such as tags, are an alternative to serving time - but what’s it really like wearing a tag for these young women and as part of a system that fails to address the root causes of women’s offending, do they work?

Kate Adie examines the impact of women's work on the Home Front during the First World War. Innovations included the first women's police force, women's football and female surgeons operating on men. Adie argues that what truly mattered though was whether these changes in women's lives were long-lasting or viewed as 'only for the duration'.

A group of modern workers go back to the 60s, 70s and 80s to learn how an unsung army of factory girls took on the fight for equality at work and at home.

In a TV first, Dispatches has spent a year filming inside a women's refuge, following the stories of women who are fleeing violent partners - and are now trying to rebuild their lives.

Despite the 1960s free-love and alternative culture, many women found that their lives and expectations had barely altered. But by the 1970s, the Women's Liberation Movement was causing seismic shifts in the march of the world's events, and women's creativity and political consciousness was soon to transform everything - including the face of publishing and literature. In 1973 a group of women got together and formed Virago Press - an imprint, they said, for 52 per cent of the population. These women were determined to make change - and they would start by giving women a voice, by giving them back their history and reclaiming women's literature.

Valley Of The Sex Dolls was a 5-part docu-series shown on Channel Five in the UK and Home Box Office in 2004. It focuses on the porn industry of San Antonio Valley and what people must due in order to survive and make ends meet when shagging for fun and profit isn't enough. Some of these episodes also interviews people who were part of the super-hot porn industry of the internet when internet porn was new and there wasn't a way to download videos for free. It features interviews with Jenna Jameson, Seska Lee, and Danni Ashe and this is episode 2 of 5, Women On Top, a title that is sexual as well as business sense. (In the United States, this docu-series was called Pornucopia.)

Even during the brutality of the Dark Ages, the Vikings of Northern Europe were considered particularly fearsome, ruthless, and dangerous. For centuries, historians believed all Viking warriors were men, but new archaeological discoveries on a small island in central Sweden have revealed evidence that some of the fighters were women. See how modern forensic testing helped identify the sex of one female war chief.

…Addiction. Rachel Stonehouse explores the issues around women and gambling addiction.

Hidden away below stairs an army of people were once the vital cogs that kept the homes of the wealthy running smoothly. For little reward these men and women toiled from before dawn until after dusk. A century ago, 1.5 million British people worked as servants – astonishingly, more than worked in factories or farms. But while servants are often portrayed as characters in period dramas, the real stories of Britain's servants have largely been forgotten.
From Upstairs, Downstairs to Gosford Park and Downton Abbey, TV dramas and films have made us care about the characters below stairs.