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The power of unmarried women

Unmarried women have started to outnumber married women in the USA and the UK for the first time. Columnist Polly Vernon and social scientist and author Catherine Hakim talk to Jenni Murray about the rise of the unmarried woman in the UK and what this means for careers and raising a child.

First broadcast on Woman's Hour, 22 April 2016.

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