Encouraging women and girls to pursue studies in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) is one thing, getting them to patent their innovations and take them from lab to market is another. Fiona Murray is the Associate Dean of Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Co-Director of MIT’s Initiative for Innovation. She talks about women getting in the CEO seat and revving up the innovation engine.

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Host: Clara Young

Producer: Robin Allison Davis

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At age 15, 5% of boys in OECD countries want to work in information technology (ICT). And girls? 0.5%. With society digitalising fast and the current gender gap in science/technology/engineering/maths (STEM) widening, the future still looks to be a “man’s, man’s, man’s world”. But Gabriela Ramos, OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20, is betting against James Brown. She urges girls to set their ambitions high and calls on policy makers to break down the policy barriers that are holding women back.

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Host: Kate Lancaster

Sound engineer: Borja Ortuzar

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Machines are learning but who’s teaching them? You, me but also legions of microworkers all over the world. Antonio Casilli is associate professor in digital humanities at Télécom ParisTech and researcher at the Edgar Morin Centre of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

Host: Clara Young

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The days when people held a full-time job for most of their lives and accordingly received benefits are over. Nowadays, many of us are temps, self-employed, and artists. We work part-time, pick up gig work, take on zero-hour contracts. How do we reconcile social security like pensions, unemployment benefits, and medical insurance with these more fluid forms of work? We discuss this and ideas like Universal Basic Income with Monika Queisser, who is Head of Social Policy at the OECD.

Host: Kate Lancaster

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Women’s pay has been catching up to men’s since 1968 but women still earn 49 cents to every dollar men make. And that’s been true for the past 15 years.

How can women achieve equal pay for equal value? Zara Nanu, the co-founder and CEO of Gapsquare, is counting on algorithms.

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Who are the Gilets Jaunes and what do they want? We talk to Sophie Pedder, who is Paris bureau chief of the Economist and author of "Revolution Francaise: Emmanuel Macron and the quest to reinvent a nation".

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Everybody agrees that tech giants and all other businesses should pay their fair share of taxes where they create value. But is a digital tax the way to go? OECD tax chief Pascal Saint-Amans says no. The OECD has secured an agreement among 127 countries and jurisdictions to spearhead talks on changing the rules of the taxation game: shifting more taxing rights to market jurisdictions where goods and services—digital or not—are being consumed…away from the countries where multinational companies are headquartered. What’s at stake? Nothing short of changing fundamental tax rules to address the 21st century’s globalised and digitalising economy.

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OECD Chief Economist Laurence Boone reflects on the risks facing the world economy and the need for international co-operation.

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Host: Rory Clarke

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We talk a lot about the need to innovate, but how do schools encourage intuitive leaps and, ultimately, new inventions? Jamie Hyneman, formerly co-host of Discovery Channel’s MythBusters, says students need hands-on experience. Like the kind you get in LUT University’s prototype lab in Finland, the Jamie Hyneman Center.

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Sound engineer: Iván Porras Sepulveda

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World Bank chief economist Penny Goldberg discusses how global trade has exacerbated inequality between rural and urban areas, and what to do about it.

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Host: Clara Young

Executive Producer: Robin Allison Davis

Team Lead: Rory Clarke

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