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World Service,21 Mar 2017,17 mins

When Martin Posed As Nicole At Work...

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If you do a Google search on peer-reviewed studies about sexism in the workplace, you'll get pages and pages of results. But none of those research papers have quite had the impact of an experiment on sexism at work that two colleagues stumbled into by accident. We speak to Nicole Hallberg, a freelance blogger and copywriter in the US, and Martin Schneider, now a writer and editor at Front Row Central, about what happened when they swapped email signatures by mistake back in 2014. The story has only came to light in the past few weeks after Martin tweeted about it, tweets which have since gone viral. Plus, with a week to go until the UK triggers Article 50, the formal process which will lead to the country's departure from the European Union, the BBC's Matthew Price reports on what Brexit means for data privacy in the UK. (Photo credit: HOWARD GEORGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

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