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As Channel 4 News continues with its series, Britain’s Niqab, FactCheck gets to work uncovering a few facts around a polarised and heated debate.

Vicky Pryce argues that more than half of women in jail are there due to the men in their life – but is she right? FactCheck analyses the claim behind her “Prisonomics”.

Yvette Cooper has attacked the government’s record on domestic violence – claiming that it is “failing badly”. Is she being fair to the boys in blue?

David Cameron says that there are more women working than at any other time in history. Maybe, but are we really in a position to celebrate, FactCheck asks?

It’s that nagging women’s issue the PM just can’t seem to get away from: female employment. Just how many women have got jobs since the election – is Mr Cameron right that the number is on the rise?

“The IPPR actually thinks the figures show the reverse of what Mr Grayling wants them to show.”

Nick Clegg claimed today: “The unemployment of women went up by 24 per cent under Labour”. Was he right? FactCheck investigates.

“Female executive directors are a very select few, and their ranks have only been swollen by an average of one woman a year over the last decade.”

“Returns on equity, sales and invested capital companies were all significant better in firms with the most women in their top management teams compared to those most dominated by men.”

To hear Labour speak, you’d think there was a veritable stampede of women desperate to escape the clutches of David Cameron in exchange for the warm embrace of Ed Miliband. But are they right? FactCheck speaks to pollsters and asks Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts what women really want.

David Cameron argued today that there are 50,000 more women in work than the time of the election, but Mr Miliband maintains that things haven’t been this bad since the Conservatives were last in government. Who’s right?