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Business Daily: Meet the trailblazers: The female bike mechanics

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Meet the trailblazers: the female bike mechanics

02/05/2024 GMT

Meet the trailblazers: The female bike mechanics

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Meet the trailblazers: The female bike mechanics

Why are so few women making a living from fixing bicycles?

Sharvari, Belinda and Brenna are all female bike mechanics from different corners of the world.  Why are so few women making a living from fixing bicycles?

Meet Sharvari, Belinda and Brenna, three female bike mechanics from different corners of the world. From setting up a female run workshop in India, teaching skills to other women, or working within elite sport: these three are all making a living in the male dominated world of bike mechanics. Hear their stories and find out what happened when we got them all talking to each other.

Presenter/producer: Lexy O'Connor

(Photo: Bicycle mechanic Belinda Everett, Credit: Ryan Goff, #rygoff)

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