next news it is business news with my colleague chris i'm sorry kelly in berlin the web site www dot com you can also follow us on social media thanks for watching take care. more than a 1000 years ago witnesses a huge construction boom. christianity for what you stablished itself. both religious and secular leaders just play their power. to trace who can. create the tallest biggest most beautiful structure. stone masons builders and architects compete with each

other. this is how massive churches are created a. contest of the feel good. story. on. a real setback for these between men and women. and i think has pushed back gender parity by a generation that's according to findings of the world. to want to offer for him also a dazzling ride ride on the trading floor after delivery delivery going public today in london's biggest market last decade and ballard review is on the way to a crucial union vote at an alibi. but some hopeful spark an explosion of union

organizing across the united states. was called welcome to the program the pandemics disproportionate impact on women could reverse years of progress towards gender equality that is the stark warning from a new report published by the world economic forum it shows that at the current rate of progress it will take another 133 years to achieve gender parity in the areas of economic opportunity political empowerment education and health the biggest gap remains in politics where globally women occupied just over a quarter of all seats in parliament this despite the fact that female leaders have one particular praise for the handling of the pandemic one big problem is the so-called double shift throughout the crisis women have taken on more childcare and home schooling demands than men as a result they've become more likely to drop out of the workplace less likely to

ascend into leadership roles and unsurprisingly have experienced more stress 30 hours 80 joins me now she is a managing director at the roald economic forum and she heads the form center for new economy and society good to have you on the program as usual sania. now this report makes for a grim reading will things just improve once dependent is over or one of the long term consequences. i think if 15 years of measuring this data has shown us anything it's that there is nothing natural about the gender gap it exists because off decisions that are taken are not taken and therefore proactive efforts to day that and then carry tea into the economy have to future last was going to be a game changer and this is

a great moment to do that because so many things are shifting entire sectors are being disrupted to knology in the mass amount of automation and digitize ation is moving forward at a faster pace than ever before so this is in many ways the right moment to embed parity and that's going to require efforts from both the government and from the business sector not the same time you say when it comes to the changes in the job world that we're seeing today the mass of the. undertakings that are happening there industry $4.00 your report also states that despite these changes it's going to be harder for women in this new world of jobs to succeed. yeah there is a mixed picture here right so the jobs that will be growing in the future a very large set of them happen to be the roles that to deploy a lot of technology or broaden the science technology engineering and math skills

and that is one of the very few areas of study where fewer women are going in the net and so that pipeline happens to be more male dominated and female dominated now of course there are some sectors of the economy which are highly dominated by women and are expected to grow in the future supreme sample the caricom me or the education sector both of these are likely to grow in the future and tend to employ more women but they also happen to be lower paid sectors and so even though the overall employment to me would rise in those sectors when it comes to women the economic gender gap is still likely to expand because of this a growing segregation between higher paid sectors and lower paid sectors and the gender balance within that and study of recently iceland came on on top in your report general for gender equality yet again what are they doing better than other countries. well they've got in place the care infrastructure you refer to that

double shift that women are facing they have got in place a care infrastructure that supports working families and it tends to work equally for both women and for men they also have a fairly good track record when in his participation in parliament in ministerial positions female heads of state and that's a working well and then of course within the business world there are a lot of measures in place that ensure that women are not just hired into roles but there is a very clear and objective path to professional to progression and promotions that helps to close some of those gender gaps and some of those implicit biases that can tend to exist in the corporate world so that together that is how i see is maintaining its number one position including during this pandemic so it is a lady of the world economic forum thank you. and food delivery service delivery

deliver is going public day it's london's biggest stock market launch for a decade now it is a closely watched a view to survive massive growth during dependent make the company still has not made a profit found it 8 years ago delivery now operates and around $1800.00 towns and cities across europe the middle east and some parts of asia while some are see seeing as rapid growth as proof of future profitability concern over the working conditions of its now 100000 self employed riders is turning several big investors away they fear that the company's failure to guarantee pay or safety for its riders could seize objected to tighter regulation in the future causing if you're down to its bottom line while the living room in tains that its workers value the flexibility offered by the job did decide to reduce the price range of its i.p.o. from 64 pounds 60 a share down to 4 pounds 10 contribution as our markets man in frankfurt has more

on the story conrad it is the largest i.p.o. in london since 2011 is it going to be a successful one. well with this reduced price target there's at least reason to hope that the share price will not slump on this very 1st trading day but the fact that this price target had to be reduced so significantly you know the total valuation off delivery of liver roux from $12000000000.00 british pounds to $7600000000.00 of course indicates that there are many investors out there who have doubts at least 6 large investment firms have said that they will not take part in today's i.p.o. and these are a few big influential names rathbone's legal and general standard life. if large investors like this have doubts it's very likely that many retail investors will follow. those in frankfurt thank you.

and not to some of the other global news frankfurt's dax 30 day chip index has reached 50000 points for the 1st time stocks tracked gains on wall street on tuesday as optimism about the global economic recovery is growing shares and all the makers dodge a bank and optimism over buy on text production boost to decline pay pal is along its customers in the united states to use terms used like bitcoin. and like carnot millions of merchants around the world the online payment platform is one of them are just mainstream companies just walk away with their currencies visa is also this week announced its intention to step them in their payment network the international monetary fund says that economic growth not by the united states and china is accelerating but warns of the risks of an even global recovery

a faster recovery could cause a rise in interest rates and lead to significant capital outflows from developing economies says the organization's chief. it is to the u.s. state of alabama now where events in the small town of bessemer could be a watershed moment for online retail giant amazon and other large employers in the country because amazon's warehouse in bessemer could be the 1st to unionize votes are being counted right now imus and c.e.o. jeff bezos has always resisted allowing unions in his company but dissent has been growing for years. welcome to bessemer if you have never heard of this southwestern suburb of birmingham alabama you were not alone at least until recently bessemer home to roughly 28000 residents has become a daily news headline a beacon of hope for many but for others it's now a symbolizes

a vicious attack on the good old capitalism. bessemer is now at the center of the biggest and most important labor fight the united states has seen in decades thanks to amazon so here we are at the amazon fulfillment center right behind me here in bessemer alabama this place year or better 5800 workers who work here could make history yes history but only in the united states why is that because amazon was successful for the last almost 20 years to fight off any union effort to put cracks in the house off the sauce this is the 1st time that a union has a real chance to get labor organized at amazon local union organizers work for months on getting amazon workers into the flock flyers and posters rallies and shit like work and this all came about because of this man

darrell richardson. richardson felt things are not all that great at the bessemer amazon fulfillment center if you're late a minute. 15 minutes a automatic way from you. i want. to watch. so we're just a lot of stuff need to be changed last year contact at the retail warehouse and department store union in birmingham and a representative met with him here. at the dreamland barbecue in tuscaloosa rips and iced tea a plan to unionize amazon was hatched and set in motion. fast forward to today almost $6000.00 workers voted for or against unionization now the votes are being counted union activist alex gould says that won't be the end of it likely for . its approach to leave but. if the workers win this vote it's

going to be a big struggle for samaras to come to any agreement with them you know the laws. have to bargain with them but we all know it's a question of power. and there's also the other side of course amazon employees who don't want the you know we are against it and we are very happy with what we are getting as far as benefits we're happy with our working conditions we're happy with the advancement opportunities. speaking of advancement whatever the bessemer vote will be amazon is sure to face more pressure for unionization in the future. and that's our show if you want more go ahead and check out our website at the d.w. dot com slash business or better yet follow us on social media i'm chris forward

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