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Tantrums are an inevitable part of living with a toddler. But with the prospect of weeks or even months of families cooped up together ahead of us, how can parents keep meltdowns (by toddlers and themselves!) to a minimum? Emily Jones is a professor of infant neurodevelopment and autism at the Birkbeck Babylab and she tells Jane what\\u2019s happening when a child has a tantrum, when and how to intervene, and gives top tips for parents trying to cope.

Earlier this week, the former cabinet minister Amber Rudd tweeted \\u201cDuring Gov briefings am I the only one thinking \\u2018where are all the women?\\u2019 Why are there no senior women in the \\u201cwar cabinet\\u201d or used to convey those critical messages? Equality means better decisions. Don\\u2019t pack the women away during a crisis.\\u201d Many were quick to reply that this was no time for quotas and that ability matters more than equality. But what are the problems with not including the different perspectives and lived experiences of women in decision making? We hear from former Conservative cabinet minister, Amber Rudd, Caroline Criado-Perez, the author of \\u2018Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men\\u2019 and Simone Schnall, Reader in Experimental Social Psychology and Director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge.

To mark the Spring Equinox, Radio 4 is broadcasting readings of seasonal poetry. Today we have poetry from the award-winning Welsh poet and playwright, Menna Elfyn.

Mothers' Day can be a difficult time for some people, Robyn Donaldson and Emma Hopkinson tell us why they started Others' Day.

Presenter: Jane Garvey\\nProducer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Amber Rudd\\nInterviewed Guest: Caroline Criado-Perez\\nInterviewed Guest: Simone Schnall\\nInterviewed Guest: Professor Emily Jones\\nInterviewed Guest: Menna Elfyn\\nInterviewed Guest: Emma Hopkinson \\nInterviewed Guest: Robyn Donaldson