Tonight we're tackling a thorny woman's our perennial self-esteem.

Eleanor Roosevelt's famous observation that nobody can make you feel inferior

without your consent is often quoted, but is it true?

Is self-esteem more self-generated than circumstantial?

How much of the stuff is enough?

How can we get more of it and how is selfie culture impacting on a self-image

of the next generation?

We've come to London's Victoria to girl guiding HQ to find out.

The organisation is very aware of the self-esteem and the self-image of its young members.

We're going to be finding out about that with some of my guests tonight.

I've got writer and campaigner Natasha Devon with me. Welcome.

Chidera Egeru, but a known to her Instagram followers as the slum flower welcome.

Chidera, Dr Philippa Dydrix, a research psychologist who specialises in body image.

And the Girl Guide Association's very own Evelyn Greaves.

So at 18 is as I understand it already an ambassador and on the organisation's advocacy panel.

Hello.

Fantastic. Welcome.

So I suppose as this is late night woman's hour, we should start out by establishing whether

self-esteem is a gendered issue.

Is it something that women and men, girls and boys deal with differently?

Philippa, I knew you were going to come to me with this one.

I think self-esteem is an issue for everyone because essentially what self-esteem

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