also on the show it's twenty nineteen so why are women still vastly under a present that in company boardrooms worldwide one of the very few female c.e.o.'s in the car industry tells us why and what to do it was fitting. this is business africa. berlin welcome. zimbabwe is about to scrap rules that prevent the control of local platinum mines by foreign mining companies the government said the plans were part of its new campaign zimbabwe is open for business the country is the second largest platinum reserves in the world currently foreign companies may hold no more than a forty nine percent share in diameter and platinum mine operations under the black empowerment law introduced under robert mugabe's rule. africa's largest ak area ethiopian airlines operated a flight with an all female flight crew for international women's day today the plane landed in the norwegian capital all slow this afternoon where it was welcomed

by diplomats and the ethiopian community the airline says the flight was also operated by an all female crew when it took off from is a baby if you o.p.m. is africa's most profitable airline with flights to more than fifty cities across the continent. now can you imagine life without a mobile phone that applies to all genders in the industrialized world in less economically developed countries more and more women now own a mobile phone that used to be different only a few years ago the mobile gender gap reported twenty nine thousand says that eight out of ten women in mid and low income countries now own a mobile phone in sub-saharan africa and south asia the average mobile phone shop rate is ten percent lower for women than it is for men but this mobile gender gap varies from region to region sub-saharan africa has one of the widest gaps with around fifteen percent less women oh. anyhow mobile phone means they are also less

likely to have access to the internet which is an important economic factor markets across the world could generate an extra one hundred forty billion euros in revenue over the next five years alone if every woman were to own a mobile phone now let's cross over to nairobi and bring in joinery in a barrel joy why do countries in sub-saharan africa have the lowest levels of female ownership mobile ownership and mobile internet use is just a poverty issue not sure really any. issues but the other issues well well harmony or of what ability is one of them in terms of cost considering that you know predominantly african setting the financial head who happens to be the man and so sometimes the women do not find it relevant but they don't even own a device but there's also the issue of you know safety and security where

some of them are trying to avoid a situation where the codes have been none technology uses and violence against women but then there's also now the issue of literacy in skills where in a rural setting most of the women cannot read and write and considering these devices are limited to specific and they're not able to you know use these devices that confidently but then there's also the issue of network coverage where a lot of them are cut out of the different never promoted is joy why would increase internet access for women be helpful for the common economies in those regions. well just like those barriers of mentioned if they have internet penetration our internet says it then opens them up to globalization and therefore they are able to have opportunities that they've not had before and also we cannot leave out the fact that we have internet penetration also the able to get more literate let

literacy in in terms of digital literacy skills and more education as well and also it also creates economic empowerment for different reasons either by educating the rest of the community in terms of the same digital literacy skills but i think these cannot happen if they do not have other extended was second reserve isn't like energy or electricity so or in monster or settings it's very difficult if they are of greed for them to even have access to these mobile devices to ordering in an hour i mean for us thank you very much. now the broken stereo system in your car well if you live in nairobi senior commander will fix it for you in no time for thirty years the kenyan grandmother has been repairing car sound systems despite. she has no plans to retire.

this is music is her passion and that's why shaw's has been repairing sound systems for three decades and she'll continue to do it for as long as she can hold a screwdriver the. problem is again when they hear i'm an old lady some come to see for themselves actually some come not for the system installation but to see whether it's true or not. there's always something going on at her shop. everyone comes to see shaw she was not intimidated by the latest technology which she also selves. whatever production will choose she will advise you on what is best for your buck. then she takes him to ditto start to be the least feature whether it's u.s.b. was his bluetooth with middling or whatever you were here and. she's the one who set up bluetooth for me and told me i am ok and i won't be stopped by the police

now for talking on the phone while driving so i'm happy. has already had many other jobs but none of them made her as happy as this one she learned how to repair sound systems from books and her grandson. if you don't you know what i can encourage young people is to stop saying there are no jobs let them work heart even if it's to shining roasting corn or selling newspapers they should not depend on education because many of our children are educated but there are no white collar jobs that also repairs the odio equipment at a nairobi radio station where she deejays every now and then. sure wish. she is she's very perfect knowledgeable but above all she's passionate about tojo choice there's the worst thing would be to move back to her

village and have to depend on her children for support. and inspiration now women are still under represented in global boardrooms situation that has changed very little in the last thirty years that's according to a new report by the united nations international labor organization published for today's international women's day the ilo figures show that worldwide women only in a quarter of top positions women who are usually younger and better educated than their male colleagues improvement is unlikely without a strict legislation against workplace discrimination and for more equality yallow . and we stay on the subject linda jackson is one of the few women who actually made it to the very top in the male dominated car industry my colleagues caught up with the c.e.o. of situ 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 meeting oh only for you to have to tell them that you were the boss is not something that still happens to you i just don'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 very credible you can make your make your impression so yes it did happen but not anyone. 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 sickness 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 important 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 vehicle insight is a woman so why can't we have more women making a point about what we should have with our cars. you want to make female cars 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 of playing more of those parts do you believe in quotas for management but 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 it's 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 my my standing so this is why i'm against quotas 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 that'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. two days after his release from jail in tokyo the mystery of callers goans a stranger tyler has been solved the top lawyer for the former chairman of nisson

said one of goans other lawyers had suggested the disguise the outfit which included a blue cap and a surgical mask was a failed attempt to have him leave prison after three months unnoticed and also through some international media off who had the cameras on the wrong person that includes our program the doctor going as facing a number of criminal charges from his time at the house of missing. and that's all from me of the team here business africa much more online the on the dot com slash business thanks for watching.

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