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Business Matters: Two women vie to become British PM

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Two women vie to become British PM

08/07/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Two women vie to become British PM

Women vie for the top job in the world's leading economies.

With women potentially soon leading three of the most powerful nations of the G8 for the first time, we ask whether this is a significant moment for feminism.

With either Theresa May or Andrea Leadsom in Downing Street by the Autumn, Angela Merkel hanging on as German chancellor, and on current polling, Hilary Clinton in the White House from January, 2017 will begin with women leading three of the most powerful nations of the G8 for the first time. Is this a significant moment for feminism? A question for Laura Beers from the American University in Washington DC.

The vote in the UK to leave the European Union has set off a beauty contest among European cities, eager to pick up the banking and financial business that they hope will now leave London.  In Paris the authorities are fiercely promoting the city as a new Eurozone hub, and the Socialist government's promising  tax reforms to lure over high-earning financial workers. The BBC's Hugh Schofield reports from the French capital.

In  a big field in the US state of Kentucky, a rather extraordinary exhibit has just opened to the public. It is a 510-foot, $100m replica of Noah's ark, and it has been built by a Christian group  that believes in the literal truth of the account of the flood in Genesis.  Joe Boone is Vice president for advancement of the Genesis Answers project which built the ark.

And we find out why Japan is so obsessed with perfect fruit.

We are joined throughout the programme by two guests on opposite sides of the Pacific - Jason Abbruzzese, a Business Reporter at Mashable  who is in New York - Duncan Clark, Chairman of the business advising firm, BDA China  in Beijing as well as the BBC's Cindy Sui from Taiwan.

(Picture: The final candidates in the race to be British Prime Minister, Andrea Leadsom (L) and Theresa May)

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