1. Civilisation - Dr Amanda Foreman investigates how the advance of civilisation might appear from a female point of view. She visits various early settlements and encounters some extraordinary women who came to prominence in early male dominated societies.

2. Separation - the presenter continues to Vietnam, China and Japan. She looks at how the female world in these civilisations was divided between the female world of he home and the male world of business.

3. Power - this programme explores the stories of the most powerful empires in the middle ages and the women involved in them.

4. Revolution - the presenter looks at the role of the ground=-breaking women in the transformation of the modern world.

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