you women c.e.o.'s in the car industry tells us why and what to do about. this business. model for us equity markets across the region plunged today after china announced that exports dropped by over twenty percent last month compared to last year imports also fell at a rate much steeper than most analysts had expected and earlier onset of the chinese new year undoubtedly skewed the data still the dramatic drop is the latest evidence of slowing growth in china economy coming at a time when it is trying to negotiate a way out of a crippling trade war with the united states. a check in with our financial correspondent in frankfurt only we've all except that china's economy is slowly losing steam but exports down by twenty percent that's kind of serious isn't it. it is and it puts into question honestly the growth forecast of six percent for china

this year if it continues like this that's not certain because there's maybe some statistical things in there with the chinese lunar week in there but you know if it continues in any way like this china is headed for a much different number and possibly for more internal pressure as well both politically and economically already jobs are at risk with growth slowing to the pace as until this point the government in beijing is frantically trying to counter it we heard from the people's congress the communist party this week promising to pour additional money into the economy to properly economy up but it is a thing of worry maybe there's a silver lining somewhere because the trade surplus also majorly down this could be an argument towards the white house and donald trump to see it say you know give us a trade deal we're on the right track at least in that part of the balance and frankly think you. know is the dream of every rule democratically elected

autocratic having a nominally independent central bank to keep up appearances on international markets let one of your buddies run it so you are secretly in control and can print money to finance whatever you want that's the situation in the philippines at the moment where president rodrigo to teta appointed one of his friends to the job this week a clever move because the touted needs a lot of money to finance his infrastructure drive. build build build that's the rallying cry driving philippine president of rodrigue road to tear tazer one hundred eighty billion dollar infrastructure plan the controversial leaders heavy spending has already led to a boom in the construction sector with airports railways roads and bridges all getting every vamp. but seeing his plan through will require the availability of cheap and easy funds the recent appointment of

a political ally at central bank governor may go some way towards achieving that goal. or. last. year the new central bank boss maintains his institution will remain independent and that policy will be determined by facts rather than friendships others though are skeptical the philippine economy has grown fast under territory but critics warn that low interest rates coupled with a focus on the public sector at the expense of the private could put the country on the track to long term regression. women are still under represented in global boardrooms that's a situation that has changed very little in the last two years that's according to

a new report by the united nations international labor organization published for today's international women's day report says while a future in which women will no longer lag men is within reach but it will take a lot of work to get. women still have a harder time than men when it comes to finding a job a worldwide phenomenon with very few exceptions and they don't only face hardship when it comes to getting ahead in technical professions or management a major hurdle for women is mothers. an international labor organization study says women with very young children have the worst chances of finding a job. if we look at the motherhood employment penalty so the difference between women with children with out children how often they're getting into employment what their employment rate is that gap is actually increasing and over the past ten years has increased by almost forty percent globally and this should really concern us so if we don't want to reproduce the

inequalities of the past and we want to future of work that is truly gender equal we will have to make major changes and will have to make them now. the ilo figures show that worldwide women are only in a quarter of top management positions and that those who are are usually younger and better educated the member colleagues improvement is unlikely without stricter legislation against workplace discrimination and for more equality. linda jackson is one of the few women who actually did make it to the very top in the male dominated car industry my colleagues caught up with the c.e.o. of citron at the geneva motor show to learn a thing or two about female leadership qualities. miss jackson you're one of the few women c.e.o.'s in the automotive industry now i was reading an anecdote about you where you related that very often you would go to

a meeting and of the delegates would not would want to wait for the boss before starting the reading all the for you to have to tell them that you were the boss is not something that still happens to you it doesn't happen anymore i have to say but it did happen happened very sort of early on in my career but now it doesn't happen anymore i think people probably know me but it didn't bother me because at the end of the day when she say you're the boss and then you're very credible you can make your make your impression say but yes it did happen but not anymore. now would you say there are certain advantages to being a woman executive in a very male dominated industry but i suppose the obvious advantage is that because there aren't very many of you people remember you so if you make a good impression that all goes well because if you make a mistake that starts not seculars but i think it's i think you could say it's a positive one in that there are many women but personally i would actually prefer that the world more women because you know this business is you know fifty percent of my customers are women and there was a survey done oh about couple of years back which said that behind the decision to

buy a car eighty percent of those decisions was made by women so they chose the interior cetera et cetera so it's very imposing that we get more women into the industry and i you know i want to try and encourage more people you know even within my team. you know my communications director is a female the lady that decides the design of that decides what the material in the colors are of my vehicles in sight is a woman so why can't we have more women making a point about what we should have with our cars we don't want to make female cop. but we want to make cars for everybody and i think women have a really important part to play. and how do we get women to playing more of those parts do you believe in quotas for management to say well i don't really believe in quotas i believe in encouraging more women and i do my utmost to talk at summits and encourage people in telling about my experience but the problem with coaches is that if you are that you must many people at so to senior level if you're a woman if you want to be recognized that you got to that level because of your

ability to do the job and if somebody said oh linda you got to that role because we wanted to fill a quota that sort of denigrates a little bit mice my standing so this is why i'm against coaches but obviously i'm really really encouraging more women to be in the in the industry and to be able to have more women and to make it more often so i think this big perception is that the automotive industry is just about engineers and of course it's very important part but there's a whole other range now because you know when you build an automotive brand it's not just about the protests it's about the whole experience of the customers and why shouldn't women have a part to play in the. and finally mr jackson what would you say to young women who are trying to assign to the corporate ladder what advice do you have for them i think it's a couple of things first of all have confidence in yourself and be beat beat be ready to take risks don't ridiculous respect to be able to take a risk you know right when a very early on in my career i took

a risk to stay in this industry because i wasn't originally going to be in the automotive industry that was wrist number one number two was i took the risk of coming to work in front which is working in a completely different environment than the u.k. and that's where the third risk is i took this role which is an enormous role in our i've never regretted it so i think the first thing for nice just you know take that risk sometimes just push yourself a little bit and have confidence in yourself and the other very very important thing is remember there's another life as well so you may need to make sure that you've got somebody that supports you or that you actually realize that it's not all one hundred percent work. you also have to make sure that you have a life as well so there are two archie little pieces of advice making sure you have a life thank you thank you. with your. now some call it art for others it's just vandalism every year cities around the world spend millions removing her feeding it's a tedious and labor intensive process company as

a solution being put to the test in florence. the end am for ever no more. and this valentine's day message mercilessly every from history. the tool of choice is a powerful laser that uses like to selectively remove the paints commonly used in graffiti it's the brainchild of l n a high tech industrial group based in the region of tuscany in central italy and now it's being donated to volunteers who clean up one of the most beautiful and historical cities in the world florence. should have been more. i'd like young people to see how little time they've spent doing these tags leaving their initials and messages and how long we need how much energy to take them or. the creators of the

graffiti commando actually specialize in medical lasers but their experience developing precision based devices has come in useful in tackling cleaning and restoration. the surface layer of the monument isn't damage in the process this type of laser has really low energy pulsations and high frequency repetitions. that means that it can work on all colors without causing any damage or pushing the surface at risk of future. but the innovation comes at a pretty steep price the device cost seventy eight thousand dollars. just as well then that the city of florence got it as a gift and that's it for me. mum

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