some contractors. and investigative documentary goes to italy and china and looks behind the glamorous facades of fashion houses for. the jury behind them or starts a new member c o n t w. pink for girls blue for boys it just drives me crazy i got to write gender cliches they're ingrained in our brains from a very early age even today advertises no way to make an extra buck they did the market products and services with a mock up of course which we end up paying of course monetizing genda welcome to

maid i've been and i'm. before we start crunching the numbers here's something the advertising executives missed the growing market for women who fancy a ride on fast wheels yeah we're no longer being draped over motorcycles just to rev up sales ben we have bounding the rub i think it's pretty cool. wealth of money to buy one that's long been dominated by men. the fish is a women only event they want to break the stereotype. that's it's my kindle and by monday you know your children partner at home call friends you haven't seen for a while get on your motorbike and head to pack for lads to do something that's just for you. 4 years ago

they were called nick founded what's now europe's biggest women only motorbike festival petra lets. her aim was to get more women interested in motorbikes and to connect them with each other. on call in the air we see a handful of women who don't have motorbike licenses and who aren't into the scene by the network they have a license and come by motorbike. and having an impact on the market since 2011 the number of women with motorbike licenses in germany alone has risen by around a quarter to almost 5000000 and. still more than twice as many men have smoked a bike licenses the industry remains very male centric. it's difficult when you go into a store that wanted something from me with different sizes and i was kind of

intimidated there only guys in the store there guys they don't like even talk to you or if i'm on the road with my friends. to introduce themselves to my friends but they don't even like shake my hand that's been in my home to see all awareness is growing and as a target group were taken more seriously but there's still a. a long way to go before the motorbike market gets more female friendly especially in terms of clothing for nothing since eventually. in the past women were often just used as decoration to sell much to buy. but that's changing slowly the industry is taking note women bikers are a force to be reckoned with. stefan. we don't have any female role models in the past showing us that it was totally normal for women to ride motorbikes do mechanical work and go on longer trips by

themselves so there was no one inspiring us but we're changing that now i want to. be playing a cop next year to have a role model her father she began writing the motorbike 10 years ago so she could join him on the legendary route $66.00 in the us. told us of one i didn't really have much of a desire to ride a motorbike before but i love challenges and i really adventurous i'm like to travel. so that's why i got my license and took that trip with my father. these days she's passionate about motorbikes but that's still just a hobby writing a motorbike is about having fun and living life to the full. if in the. in sitting in a car it's like you have a picture frame around you. but with

a motorbike you're in the picture right in the middle there's no frame but you're looking at it from your right in the middle and that's a different feeling. a feeling that shared by a growing number of women but petra let's event is all about networking and creating community it's also a safe space where women. that confidence. is needed and. i live in the here and now for me it's just important that the scenes growing and that there's an interest that more women become aware of it because it's such a cool thing. when you're on the road it's just you and your motorbike it's time for yourself overstay says month bus visits told these women are born to be wild the global motorcycle market is writing high with some 100000000000 euros in 2018 it's expected to keep growing and that some part to women. well it's not just

women in germany who are confronted with cliches japan is one of the richest and most technologically advanced economies in the world but society there is still very traditional it has the biggest gender pay gap among members of the o.e.c.d. the organization for economic cooperation and development only women in south korea at the stove paid less on average compared to men i know i'm half japanese hof german i visit japan often and when ever i see my japanese on she always asked me when them are finally getting married you know essential meeting a woman and all and you know even so the exact it's ridiculous and many people this think i'm not female enough and i'm too emancipated male female roles are still firmly entrenched in japan but i met one woman there who is trying to question gender stereotypes with a very unusual product try this on for size. in

the middle. of the big day in recent years we've seen the concept of brands for men emerge many people online for example find the idea strange or gross. but i think people should be able to wear whatever they want whether they are men or women. just because it feels comfortable or they like it we are starting this brand to enable that. in mom but i'll tell you. i'm a super tiny 29 years old and i'm in the process of launching a gender neutral underwear brand.

i think typical japanese underwear stores don't offer that much variety there's a lot of floral lace pink ones i'd like to have a place that off with simpler more neutral designs which are more comfortable to wear. when talking about gender or sexuality in japan i feel like i'm being choked and. there's no direct or physical violence involved but you can speak about it and that's distressing i think that's very typical of japan.

but it was that it was i initially thought the bra's would be mostly for women but i found out that many large and then worrying about their breasts showing. up among them are some men don't want their nipples to show and i realized that the only reason why many men don't buy brothels is simply because they're scared of what others might think from having a clear mind to give them a vast amount of colors i have the body of a woman i thought when i wear this the whole doesn't bother me. and many men prefer it that way so we chose the design purposely we thought why not leave it that way so that anyone could wear it if they want to read a. little. more

because we want our products to be available internationally they will be on sale online. and we're also collaborating with a japanese department store chain to sell them there as well. is a. lot of the problem is the way women are perceived inch of her in startups that have just gone public women hold less than 5 or 10 percent of the important positions inch of her and we have a term. it's for when a woman gets married and therefore stops working at a company manning and parenting go together and they see. as the ultimate goal and source of happiness for women many people here still think that way.

since i don't think we're going for a niche market here maybe it's too simplistic but focusing on male female customers limits i think a market is just going to double. the size. of . people's perceptions can change and i think that can happen quickly it's our goal that people won't be looked at strangely just for wearing what they like that's what we want to present top audits without gender bias and change the way people perceive these things. i just went to the addresses to get ready for my 1st show a wash cut and blow dry costs 55 euros for me but for you it would only been 29

euros that's pretty good i don't buy it there are things in lots of parks that you get as a woman ladies nights free drinks free cocktails dating apps the cheaper for women well they've got to get 0 interest somehow but overall you guys definitely have a better deal a german study shows half of all gender specific services are more expensive for women even things like having your clothes washed and i and men only pay more in 90 percent of the cases the study looked at only 41 percent of services where the same price and if you look at the average price difference women end up paying quite a lot more than men searching u.s.a.t. in comparison to men for the same products and services just targeted specifically at women when made a charge more it's only 7 and a half years. ok i'm starting to feel bad see. here's our colleague christina take on gender cliches and gender.

good i hope for women coke 0 for men. calorie free coke was commonly associated with women. so as the years went by a separate sugar free version was created for the stronger sex. cafe for women because we like to hang out over a good coffee for men there's mcdonald's a quick simple meal it was good i thought they were good we already have to divide everything into pink and blue just to sell more. in marketing the head of the reader gender marketing targets male and female consumers differently the danger is that it reinforces stereotypes and traditional roles. sewing machines cookbooks ions vacuum cleaners last year a german supermarket chain launched

a mother's day campaign that was so sexist it backfired. is that of course men and women are different and it would be nonsense to develop sanitary products for men for instance you need to toiletries have to be divided into pink and blue. is it really necessary for items that everyone uses to look different for men and for women it is. better man gender marketing sometimes even invents a necessary product supposedly for women for example a ladies electric screwdriver what i have got. smaller and has simple to operate buttons because apparently we're weaker and less intelligent. as women have emancipated themselves. market has discovered. only be exploited

if we women go along with it. products never buy an electric screwdriver designed for women. now here would you buy a lady's electric screwdriver well i'm not the strongest as you can see but just like christina out of principle i definitely would not buy it well you know what sales went through the roof pretty interesting stuff so pink and cuddly for goals blue and robust for boys is that dictated by lore if they throw something no actually not far from it it's a fairly modern invention in fact and in 1903 children's clothes were often white or left on bleached that way they could be washed at a high temperature without they call a fading and i was surprised to find out that pink and red were actually colors

seen as very masculine because it's strong colors of recalled the red garments worn by kate's while girls will bloom because that was seen as more delicate and it was associated with the virgin mary but you try telling that to a screaming 5 year old. all the pacifier for a little princess blue for boys even when they're babies they're slaying dragons where do these gender stereotypes come from. the advertising industry that's where girls wear pink and white dolls. they never wear blue. that's for boys. marketing professionals peddle stereotypes that marcus for our entire lives. these conditioned gender roles can make us sick that's what he has picked out says he's editor in chief at pink's thinks it's not very

friendly i he said gunson it's actually were nice we just want people to realize that pink isn't just for girls and blue for boys gender roles are something we can play with we shouldn't pigeonhole children we should help them figure out their identity and let them do things their own way. pick out has 4 children their mother works in a different city during the week he shoulders all the parenting himself. he's one of 5 members of the pink stinks team it's financed by donations. and i think you know we're in a completely run of the mill german city let's take a wander around the main shopping street and see what sort of gender stereotyping we can discover in the shop windows. we don't have to look far. enough apparently only girls in pink get their ears pierced and seriously how many

parents would buy a little boy suitcase with a picture of a unicorn not many boys get the blue ones with the puppies. on the top i have a daughter and she had a pink bicycle and i have a son who's 18 months younger than he now needs a bike too but even though he could just have the penguin because that's still in perfect condition i'd buy him a new one a blue one so i've been sold to items when i really only needed one. of our best mark you could just buy a green bike that's one solution. then we come across this poster the slogan is practice makes perfect the city's construction industry is looking for trainees. it would have been nice if this campaign and aimed for more diversity there's a shortage of skilled workers these days and they could have featured a few women for me it's a job for women too of course it is. more examples of gender stereotyping can be found on the pink stings website. users are invited to send in agree just examples

of sexist advertising. sexism when it's a case of discrimination based on gender and when we men constantly convey the message that we aren't capable of looking after our children and when we convey to women they're expected to be sexually available all the time to take care of the household and look after the kids not because they can not because they want to but because they're women and therefore it's their job that's gender based discrimination. it's high time to smash gender stereotypes. let's just let boys and girls be whatever they want to be. and as we just saw with the construction industry gender stereotyping also affects the professions that we choose but let's move away from europe for a moment and take a look at a very different gender specific product one with cultural and religious roots to

head stuff head scarves can be very controversial and that's despite europe's long history of covering up women's heads men as well men and women up until the middle of the last century wouldn't leave home without a hat on their head but some people see the headscarf now as a symbol of women's oppression of sexism and in a few islamic countries women are required to cover their heads by law but many muslim women say that for them wearing a headscarf is a liberating a way of stopping themselves from being reduced to a looks or a way of expressing themselves one of them is this next indonesian entrepreneur the aging the starry business model based on creating headscarf for working was live with it. every time i do the. station i feels that it's getting more like focus focus

and training how to keep. archery is an ancient sport and one recommended by the prophet mohammed. lestari says her faith is very important to her both in her private and her professional life. she's an entrepreneur based in jakarta. 8 years ago she founded her jump an online shop for muslim fashion she sees the hit job as a symbol of her religious beliefs and also with empowerment oh i ring in 01000 work i've fills that i'm difficult to fire in the appropriate heat of the border the office and there is no big granite a minute me. in the other hand there's a lot of big prayer in the national big granite they tried to make this he just be here why not in a nation of people with their own. marketing to this biggest population was

a little village in the world this far off economic empowerment to. and so she set about building up a homegrown fashion marketplace to fill the gap. 20 years ago religious symbols were less ubiquitous in indonesia. but these days conservative islam is increasingly popular and the market for more distress is growing indonesia is home to some $200000000.00 muslims that's around 90 percent of the population. lestari started wearing the hijab when she was 14 against her mother's will. today she's turned a fusion of faith and fashion into a successful business plan in the past it tended to be mainly the older generation who will veils today modest clothing expresses not only muslim identity but is also

a style statement this event for his club members has drawn several instagram influences egypt its kind of friend because everybody is. very very. easy to find. egypt now. egypt collaborates with $200.00 indonesian designers from buying to marketing and sales the whole operation is coordinated in the company headquarters in jakarta. lestari currently has a stock of $120.00. with a young business woman knew she wanted to work in a field she knew well and that was fashion traditional muslim dress generally involves keeping the body covered except for the face and hands the fabrics mustn't contain gelatine because that support product the whole process has to be hell out . here itself and the. islamic. world watches

or a muslim face here is not only about how you wear our laws but how we also. concious about how we me so we have to be very careful about this was a noble of the. produce our own clothes how it can impact our environment. less dari is one of the few women in the indonesian startup scene she has 2 children and has sometimes encountered investors who doubt that a young mother is capable of running a business she often works from home because it's so much more convenient it's important to her to pioneer a family friendly teen oriented management style. if i want to. make this company growing and sustainable i think. i'm not i'm not feeling that i

am the boss i was thinking about here. and i cannot do anything without mike. and i'm not positioning myself as a boss but i'm getting myself a year with. these days she also has stuff in london working towards establishing each up in europe to helping indonesian style modest fashion go global . well if i end up having a boy and a girl i'm going to buy doles skateboards for both of them and my bicycles are only going to be great good luck with that there's no pressure on me i'm married to a man sorry. q. well i hope that you've enjoyed our show marketing it's stimulating yes thanks for joining us and remember you can see any of those reports again on the main website see you again next time.

good. good. good.

good good good. good. good good. good. good. good. good. good you children cigarettes. nevertheless. can be a. mob what exactly is it that's contaminating the air is it only cars and businesses. surprising research and analysis. clean air. in 15 minutes w. . reducing the risk of flooding and erosion

of by creating hillside terraces for. your homeland well financed fear losing now harvest an initiative uses only take me to create a new solution. that is leaving the successful. global 3019 minutes on t w. d q you know that 77 percent of black are younger than thanks a lot. that's me and me and you x. . and you know what external voice is. the 77 percent speech obama beat you shoot stuff. this is where you claim.

the 77 percent this weekend on d w o. o o. a a. plane . after the fall of the berlin wall nov 9th 2 double.

this is d. w. news live from berlin voters in the u.k. will choose a new government on december 12th after lawmakers backed a snap election. the right $438.00 to nurse to the left to try and save. the motion as you heard passes by a huge majority in parliament will go to london to find out what this means for practice it also coming up lebanon's prime minister becomes the 1st major political casualty of the 2 weeks of the.