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World Service,08 Mar 2016,17 mins

Feminism in the Workplace

Business Daily

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The BBC's Gianna Palmer reports from New York about what US women understand by feminism and whether they bring the label into the workplace. Also, presenter Manuela Saragosa speaks to Dr Christina Scharff, senior lecturer in culture, media and creative industries at Kings College in London, about how the advertising industry has used feminism in several campaigns, equating it with female empowerment. And the BBC's Asia business editor, Karishma Vaswani, asks professional women in Singapore what it means to be a feminist. (Picture: People gathered to form a woman symbol to celebrate International Women's Day at in Manila, Philippines; Credit: Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images)

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