Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

The history of feminism has to include people who don't describe themselves as feminists.

If it see themselves as feminists.

In the age of online shaming and cancel culture,

we look at the difficult women who change the world with author Helen Lewis.

And there's always some aura of

unpredictability around him and anything is possible where the gesture is.

German literary star Daniel Kalman on his smash new novel Till an absurd look at a

brutal time in history seen through the eyes of a mythical prankster. Then the

meritocracy trap Yale professor Daniel Markovitz, on how the myth of upward mobility destroys America's middle class. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London.

Sunday is International Women's Day focusing this year on raising awareness of the

equality gap in all areas of our lives which makes this new stat from the

United Nations particularly distressing. Close to 90% of people around the world

holds some sort of bias against women.

Despite progress in key areas like the Me Too movement,

women's rights appear to be backsliding in much of the world.

The ongoing fight for equality can be even more difficult than we

realize, which is why in her new book author Helen Lewis says it comes down to difficult

women to lead the charge.

Lewis takes an unvarnished look at a collection of complicated,

even deeply flawed heroes who broke through the greatest barriers to equality.

I asked her why it's so important to take an honest look at

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