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president to donald trump but before he leaves he orders penalty tariffs for some key imports from asia. and it looks like women have the upper hand in davos our correspondent explores the gender gap life in the swiss. and without a welcome to w. business gender equality has emerged as a top issue in doubles with canadian prime minister justin trudeau saying if you want to fix your economy employ women our team and spend the day talking to the top female officials there and ask them for their solutions in closing the gender gap. no matter how you look at it there are still far more men than women and davos but something's changing and not just the numbers the forum is discussing topics like harassment power and injustice more intensely than ever before the seven high profile women co-chairing the world economic forum are a symbol of change but many women in davos feel things need to progress further and

faster. we can make sure that all girls get access to quality education that would be a huge step for these girls and also we need to make sure that no children get married educate girls in science and technology and take away the stigma that girls are not skilled at these disciplines and take away the fear that many girls that they're not qualified are capable of engaging in these disciplines to close it gender god we need to tackle economic inequality because all these norms in society that justify inequality between men and women that justify violence against women are already intended to put women in a lower position and exploit them economy could be really to understand the value that living with people not just going for but also in the generations trance what they've done for the world. of the workforce that they bring to the table into the

bentley two companies you don't know the nurturing the caregiving the deployed to the world i think that's the unique thing about women taking action is more important than ever studies show women have the most to lose from globalisation. no one company that has taken action is german take giant a s a p let's cross over now to davos where my colleague ben for soon and has caught up with s.a.p.'s executive board member dale fox margin bennett it looks like some corporates actually do walk the talk. you want me to find a powerful woman i did it there folks money is on the executive board how have you been experiencing tech as a woman oh look i have had the tremendous privilege of working for a great company that has a very strong diversity and inclusion program so i've been given tremendous opportunity lot of sponsorship

a lot of mentorship and it's really been an incredible incredible learning experience for me and you came from education so education to take what was that transition like for you and he is that something that you can tell us about today education being so important in trying to get women into tech look you know getting more women into attack it's a multifaceted challenge and i think it starts right at the very beginning you know with young girls and encouraging them to take on stem technology or you know to learn technical topics in school and as if he is a company we're part of solving that problem we have a lot of an issue focused on young girls before we even get them into university right and then of course the second part of the problem is when you do join a company such as ours how do we ensure that we grow and retain and develop an arch of this wonderful talent isn't it also the parents you have to convince at the end of the end of the day i mean your parents expected you to become a teacher didn't they all yes there was multiple disappointments in my house when i

initially moved from teaching you know into i.t. which was considered quite nebulous career then and i think in certain parts of the world you know i've worked in asia for quite a while you know parents are a very big influence on what their children will do but i think in today's world everybody recognizes the role of technology and brands like s.a.p are very key to that role generally globally and so i think it's seen as a very good step what about the corporate culture then at these big tech companies what has to change there to ensure that women are not only attracted but retained yeah well. first of all i think that it's important that all companies have a sense of purpose and that's a very strong thing for us at s.a.p.t. you know having a purpose a purpose that is meaningful ours is to help the world run better and improve people's lives and so for us that means that we can make a difference and the certainly when we're attracting talent and millennial talent perhaps more than and then any other type that sense of purpose is of a significant value and it's something that we live very every single day that we

can to work the slogan sounds great but how is it put into practice how is a business software maker making the world a better place well first of all i think our software underpins the vast majority of the world's transactions seventy six percent of the world's transactions actually run through a safety system so if we help the businesses do business better then we can help businesses broader than us actually make a difference and then a part of it is also the our own programs that we run within the company that are just broader than pure c s r's but really a way of us you know systematically giving back to the communities that we live in and we serve besides talking to us and getting out a great message what are you hoping to get out of davos just as a as a final word this is my first time so it's been quite a quite an experience and really the opportunity to connect with people from all sorts of backgrounds different companies different process the world has been incredible and the opportunity for synergy in areas that you might not have expected before is something that i've come to discover and enjoy a lot of us

a difference martin thank you very much thank you ben a powerful woman for you there in the tech world monica could you ask for more. maybe two powerful women but we can do that the next time ben thank you so much for this now and we'll catch up with you later again we've got you haven't we there you are and of course i would team and was will continue their coverage of the world economic forum we'll also bring you the speech of german chancellor angela merkel just a bit later this afternoon of course now then u.s. president donald trump has brushed off concerns that new tariffs the u.s. has imposed on imported washing machines on solar panels will lead to a trade war both china and south korea said to they'll turn to the world trade organization to defend their interests but donald trump argues that tariffs would add to jobs in the united states. another weekend another set of tariffs this time heating imported washing machines and solar panels on tuesday u.s. president trump signed an executive order for punitive tariffs on those products

specifically naming two asian multinationals our action today helps to create jobs in america for americans it will provide a strong incentive for l.g. and samsung to follow through on their recent promises to build a major manufacturing plants for washing machines right here in the united states the trumpet ministration believes that south korean washing machines and chinese solar panels have an unfair competitive advantage against products made in the u.s. tariffs as high as fifty percent could be imposed on washing machines trump is on his way to davos and plans to use his trip to promote his america first strategy they're going to do have those will be talking about investing in the united states again for people to come in and spend their money in the good old usa and that's what they're doing we have massive amounts of money coming in. the u.s.

president is due to host a dinner for european see those at the world economic forum on thursday and investment in the u.s. is likely to be high on his agenda. change of scene now and the dump off the wealth well that's what an vironment experts call china a country is the world's biggest importer of garbage some fifty six percent of the world's plastic waste ends up there and that's going to change since the beginning of the year there have been an import battle in force on two dozen different recycling materials well that's a huge adjustment for china's garbage industry and that is more evident no more evident than in the city off. indeed you around two hundred kilometers from hong kong people live from garbage keyboards laptops mobile phones millions of tons of waste mostly from other countries it's delivered here to the industrial estate on the city's outskirts where it's dismantled by hand and then sold on. although the

dismantling of old electronic devices is the leading industry in gave you we should say it was more of a trade than an industry but the dismantling of old electronics is essential so the local government had an obligation as well as the ability to lead standardize and make it scientific. used to be dismantled in the courtyards of small family businesses materials like copper were extracted plastics were shredded thousands of small businesses most of them illegal now of the garbage industry has shifted to the official industrial park. i think it's fine for us working here but it gets hard on warm days we've been here since nineteen ninety nine but my body is in good condition. the garbage mountains and give you a receding as china bans more and more waste imports plastic old c.d.'s textiles twenty four different materials have been banned since the start of this year too

dirty too dangerous the government says so the fundamental purpose of the ban is to solve the problem. the recycling business to focus on. the country creates enough garbage of its own to satisfy its thirst for raw materials and the government wants that waste processed cleanly and legally the end of a cottage industry indeed. all that's. for now thanks. i'll be back. in the next hour.

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