♪host: this week, "global 3000" is dedicicated to women.we heado south africa's hippest hubs to meet young,female tech-whizzes. in india, we pay a visit to thekhasi, where women run the show. and inin saudi arabia, we meetwomen for whom working m mes nothing less than freedom.freedom is an alien concept for women here.they're not allowed to drive. they need male consent totravel, or even just to own a passport.but for several years, women in

saudi arabia have beencampaigning for equal right, filming themselves behind thewheel, and training for football matches.they've even ventured into satire on youtube.and it's having an effect. saudi universities now have morefemale than male students. and over the next few years thenumber of women in the workforce is set to rise from 22% to 30%.in the saudi city of jeddah, the nesma embroidery and tailoringcenter is breaking new ground. it employs more than 60 saudiwomen. that's u unusual in this extremelelyconservative islamc kingdom. its managing director is ranazumai. herself a mother o othree, shepays her staff well a and provideses

them with a minibus service andeven daycare for their children. ms. zumamai: a shy houousewifesd absolutelyly grab this job opportunity.and in the process, learn how to make a more confidentimpression. in the beginning when thecusustomer, they not trustig us, that how i can deal as a man --ththey arellll women. some of customers make t the orderin minimum quanantity, bece they don't trust that we candeliver it. but after the first deal and thesecond deal and the third deal, now w they depend on us in alltheir quantity, and big quantity.we keep it female because we want to provide our women,muslim women, with an environment where they feelrelief if they want to work

freely without wearing hijab.we feel more comfortable. host: the women are only wearingtheir veils inside the factory but they l later discovever tt thewework, it meanans more than. that work means to secureyourself, feel your value, your right in your community.now the target of the girl when she grgraduates fromom this coununtryschool is n notnly focd onon what man she will marry.no, because she can live without being married.host: fatimah ali is one of the employees who is not married.ms. ali: the most important thing for me is to know that iam no longer fincially dependent on my parents.that makes me feel so strong.

all of a sudden i can just goout and do things by myself, things our society doesn't thinkare good for wowomen -- beg with friendnds or being o out and abn my own. in the past i was never amongpeople. i was always at home. today, i have made so many goodfriends. host: a new sense of freedom ina country that until recently, largely excluded women frompublic life. host: how long have marriedwomen in europe had the right to work without the consent oftheir husbands? in france, since 1965.women in germany had to wait another 12 years.and in switzerland, it wasn't until 1988 that legal reformsgave women and men equal rights. before that, men were the headof the family, while women cared for the children and household.equality is about leading an

autonomous life, it's abouteducation, and deciding whether to have children or not.and of course it's about being paid the same for the same work-- still a huge issue, worldwide.women in india are among the most disadvantaged in the world.and yet here, in the state of meghalaya, there's a tribe whodo things completely differently -- the khasi. >>you see. i have a daughter.she is a girl, and i will educate heher.whatever shehe w, i will give her, but not bad things.host: not bad things but good things, and that means land anda house. khasi men work on their wives'land. at the moment they're harvestinglaurel.

this landowner has a son, andalso, much to her satisfaction, two daughters. >>in khasi society, overallresponsibility lies with mothers.the e mother is the hed of the famimily.when she dies, her daughter inherits her property.that's how it's been for generations.host: : the khasi practice matrilineal descent.t.the younge daughter o of the family, the ka khadduh, inheritsall ancestral property. sons live with their mothersuntil they get married. then they move in with theirwife's family. every time a daughter marries,the family extends the property to accommodate her new family. >>our children have theirmother's name, not their father's's name.your task as a n is to fulflfill your family's needs.the women are in charge of the

home and the property.they make sure everything ruruns smoooothly.host: in the state f meghalayaya, the khasi -- who numumr roughlyone million -- are officially recognized as an ethnicminority. they enjoy certa privileses,with asi i laws protn autonomous district government.they also pay lower taxes and benefit from indiaia's employmementreservatioion policr government and publilic sectorjobs. jobs. indianan culture tends to fafavorboys over girirls. but in khasi c culture, a familywith no girls is considerd unfortunate.men are financially dependent on their wives.there are barely any registered cases ofof domestic viviolencn the afternoooons, the women like to meet up for tea andgossip in mawlongbna. from farmers to businesswomen,everyone here chas together comfortably.kong arbi is the owner of the tea house.ms. arbi: i sell tea and light

snacks.i provide f for my ownn children and mymy whole clan.i don't eara lot, but it's enough for m my family.hosost:g arbi is determrmined to protect khasi tradition fromoutside influences. ms. arbi: as a woman, i'm veryproud of our tradition. men move in with their wives.they look after us and thy also help us look after the children.it's good to be a woman here. host: bubut life isn't always easyfor the ka khadduh. from an early age, youngestdaughters have to take care of their families.they look after the younger children in n the extendeded family,c,cook, clean, , and wh clclothes.

they're also expected to takecare of their parents and grandparents until they die.indian society is largely male-domominated, and d khasi me often the e butt of jokes. but they themselves have noproblem with women ruling the roost. >>my wife shshould respepect met and i also respect her a lot.but we bototh respect raisg our children, for developing theirfuture, girls or boys. but love is more important.i love her and s she loves me, ad supporting our children.host:: bibalisha is renovating her mother's market stall.she's jujust 18 and still goes to school, but she's already thehead of her family. still, she's optimistic aboutthe future. bibalisha: it's not a burden atall. because after we work and get ajob at least we can make money.

for our parents, we can keep amaid at home, maybe to take cae of them.for r us, after r or studies s i can go abroad, go for travavelling.it's s not a burdt alall. host: but if she's t to upholdldtradition as well, shel have her workrk cut out foror her.howewever, one traradition reremas unchallenged.m.meghalaya's villages are considered t the cleanest t in thewholele of asia. the women are constantlycleaning and tidying. and broomsticks from mawlongbnaare popular tourist souvenirs. broom grass grows hereeverywhere. it's handpicked by the women andbound to make the brooms. one feature of khasi culture, atleast, that has been exported all over south asia. ♪host: from rural india to urban

germany.we asked some women and men, >>i'd say a typical woman isvery emotional, very intuitive, more so than men. >>they have got far too manyclothes in their closet, they're addicted to shopping. >>sensitive, led by theirfeelings. >>that's right, moody. >>they complain abouteverything. >>they can cook. tidy up. >>a typical woman?a good listener. but when the man's not there,she does what she wants.

>>sweet, polite. >>a little bit shy. >>good manners, a bit shy. >>cute, somehow. >>women are only interested inshopping, appearances, how thy look. >>yeah, make-up and all that. >>when someone gives her anopportunity, she will say, oh, i really don't know if i can dothat. >>tough, self-confident,strong. host: and now to some strongwomen campaigning for the rights of others, using dance toprotest against violence. "one billion rising" gotunderway in 2013. the name "one billion" remindsus that one in three women around the world have alreadysuffered abuse in their lives. it's become one of the largestprotest movements in the world. we met the woman behind it.reporter: author, artist, and

activist.eve ensler is outspoken and impulsive, and she fights forher vision of feminism. ms. ensler: you believe in thepower that women have in them and the power they can generateif they are equal, if they are cherished, if they aren't hurtand uncut, unviolated and unraped. what would women be?reporter: this is washington square park in new york city.demonstrations have been taking place here ever since u.s.president donald trump took power.whenever she can, eve ensler joins in.ms. ensler: just all these people here.the fact that the resistance is growing and growing and growing,and it's gonna get fiercer and deeper and more connected as wego. and eventually we are going tohave a massive uprising in ths

country against this regime.i believe it. reporter: an uncompromisingradical, she rejects everything that donald trump stands for.ms. ensler: refer to him as predator-in-chief from thispoint on. this will drive him crazybecause he loves the name so much. predator-in-chief!we have a self-confessed sexual assaulter, an accused rapist, asexual harasser. a man n who has said women shouldbe punished for having abortions.reporter: for decades, the new yorker has been campaigning forequal rights for women, whether in america, india, or congo. ♪she rose to fame with "the vagina monologues," a theaterpiece about women and their experiences with sex,relationships, and violence. she herself suffered violenceand sexual abuse as a child. yet, she says the anger she feltfor her father made her

stronger.ms. ensler: i bless my rage, because that rage kept me fromkilling myself. you know, i became suicidallater on, but at the time of my childhood i was just defiant.i did everything the opposite if he told me to do.told me not to go out, i went out.he told me not to smoke pot, i smoked pot.told me not to -- everything he did. but you know what?that kept me alive. reporter: now she draws herstrength from her friends, tony montenieri and susan swan.they're her family, and the three work closely together.in 1998, ensler founded the women's organization v-day.active worldwide, v-day supports of gender violence in the democratic republic ofcongo. ♪ this evening she's on her way toa women's film festival, where

she'll be receiving an award.she stops for photographs on the red carpet with her stepson,actor dydylan mcdermot. they've very close.mr. mcdermott: one of the most important things in life,obviously, is your character. and eve's character is so true,so gold, if you will. and what she has done for womenaround the planet will go down in history, i believe.i mean, she is a radical. reporter: eve ensler is theevening's guest of honor. she's a role model for many ofthe women in the audience. >>ladies and gentlemen, thenext president of the unitedd states, eve ensler!reporter: eve ensler enjoys her applause, but she's never seenherself as a celebrity. ms. ensler: so much of my lifehas been about being on the

frontlines, struggling in thearts where i had to struggle every day of my life in thetiniest little theaters at te beginning of my career to littleholes in the middle of nowhere to little towns.and the same with my activism. i have been doing direct action,i have been doing organizing for people across the globe cometogether to dance in defiane of the injustices women suffer.dance as protest. the campaign has supporters allover the world, from new yor, to berlin, to dehli.ms. ensler: music, dance, song, hip hop, poetry, spoken word,theatre. we need to make art. we need to make love.art brings us into our bodies. it catalyses sexual energy andwe all need to have a lot of sex.reporter: that's the sort of message her fans and supporterslove her for. ♪

the continued violence agagnstwomen makes her fururio. but eve ensler doesn't despair.she will carry on her fight. giving up simply isn't anoption. host: and now to africa, acontinent with 58 countries and 1.2 billion people.but just how linked up are they? less than a third of africanshave internet access -- most of them in south africa, kenya, andnigeria. in 2015, there were 226 millionregistered smartphone sim-cards. however, that number is set totriple by 2020. and that's influencing urbanhipsters in their choice of work.reporter: cape town's waterfront

up their internet platform tohelp young african women achieve their professional dreams.it organizes workshops and events across africa onnetworking, drawing up busines plans, and marketing and prstrategies. this weekend, thoko miya isrunning a workshshop on programming for youngentrepreneurs. computer science and softwaredesign are still very much male-dominated fields.ms. miya: science, technology, engineering and math areextremely important because n africa -- and i i think it is aphenomenon n around thehe wor- women often arare told, yoyu wouldbe better at something els, and that's whyhy we focus ontechnoly and entrepepreneurship.. getting people, and especiallywomen in africa, involved in

tech and getting them involvedin entrepepreneurship actctiviti, getting them involved in keyareas where they y could be inindustry leaeaders.reporter:ro miya works foror girlhype, a non-profitorganization that aims to get more women into stem subjects.her mother founded girlrlhype 12 years ago.ms. miya: the biggest challenge is investments.getting invevestments, gettiting endorsements, gettingsponsorships. i think africacan women reallynd to come in with a sense of leleadership, , come in with a a senseof ownership, come in with, th is me, this is what i do and iam capable. leave the beggar mentality athome, you dodon't need to bg when you're here.bring you and your leadership. reporter: some of today'sparticipapants already n theieir own websites.nyaki tshabangu has an online platform that promotes naturalhair. users can n buy products,, discususstips for hair care, ad find out

about services and events takingplace. she is familiar wih the chalallenges facing fefemaleentrepreneurs. ms. tshabangu: access togovernment funding, access to private sector funding, notbeing bold enough to go into companies and say, you shouldhire me or i need to be working here or you need to listen tome. i think that is the biggest challenge with women, in southafrica particularly. reporter: mich atagana is headof communications and public affairs at google south africa.she's confident that digital technology will continue tocreate jobs. she also hopes it will allowafrican businesses to forge their own path.ms. atagana: i think we are so obsessed with scale becausethat's what the world of entrepreneurship in the west hastaught t us to believe in. when y you think aboutut it, i iemploy ththree people and one person leaves my business,b,because they are equipped enough

to start their own business, andthen they employ another thre people a and one person leavestt business to go employ another three people -- whenthat happens on a scale of 10,000, is that t not scaling?g?reporter: the new opportunities aren't restricted to the digitalworld. job creation is a priority inevery sector. ms: atagana: it is only some ofjobs that apps can give, but f you can build a farm that allowsafricans to prododuce ad sell ththeir own food, you've creatednot j just so many job, you've fed so many people.reporter: here in cape town, the digital future has arrived, andwomen are very much part of it. ♪ >>i am. >>a global teen. ♪milenia: my name is milenia

reije, i live in las galeras.i was born on the 2nd of janunuary, 2000, and that't'sy iwas named mileniaia. ♪ i love it.i get up at 7:00 in the momorning to get to school by 8:00, and istay until midday. i like spending time with myfriends and playing games. ♪ we play dominoes.you need four players. ♪

i'm afraid of violence andmurder. i'm also frightened by cyclonesand earthquakes, that sort of thing. ♪ trees. fruit. games.and the beach. ♪ >>it's brain and beauty, it'strying to solve the problem.

>>men and women, they are allequal because they all have the same responsibilities.what i can do, a woman can do. host: what's a typical woman ora typical man for you? tell us on facebook -- dw globalsociciety. you'll also o find lots ofinteresting discussions, web videos, and live eventnts there.follow us onon dw global society.y. center at dw.com.we are back next week.

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