Columnist Sarah Vine, The Human Rights Act and Rape Survivors, Women in Engineering

How do we engage girls in engineering and retain those already in the field? That’s the question that needs to be answered in order to meet Britain’s growing demand for engineers. To celebrate National Women in Engineering Day Woman’s Hour will be speaking to people who are raising the profile of women engineers and making their mark on the industry. In the first of this week’s series Jane Garvey speaks to Professor Dame Ann Dowling of Cambridge University who last year became the first female president of the Royal Academy of engineering.

A new advertising campaign is being launched to make parents more aware of the dangers their children can face online and of the need to switch on parental controls.  More than half of parents don’t use parental controls, according to Internet Matters, the independent organisation set up by the UK’s four major broadband providers with the aim of helping parents to keep their children safe online.  Now they’ve launched four videos, called ‘Protect Their Curiosity.’  They’re designed to alert parents to how an innocent online search by a child can lead to them being exposed to pornography, violent scenes, cyber-bullying or sexting.  Jane is joined by Carolyn Bunting, the General Manager of Internet Matters to find out about the practical steps parents can take to stop their children being exposed to unsuitable online sites and by Lizi Patch, who’s backing the campaign after her son was left distressed by seeing a disturbing sex video.

The Government has proposed to scrap the Human Rights Act, which enshrines the European Convention of Human Rights in UK law. David Cameron proposes to replace the Act with a ‘British Bill of Rights’. However, could this have unintended consequences? We talk to Harriet Wistrich, a lawyer at Birnberg Pierce about how the Human Rights Act has been used to help rape survivors who were victims of police negligence. The BBC’s Legal Correspondent Clive Coleman also joins the programme.