Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Milne Tite.

This time, we talk a lot about women in traditionally male office cultures,

but a number of professions are female dominated and they have been for a long time,

and they bring their own challenges.

What the analysis has really showed is that there's just a lower value placed on work

done in an occupation with a higher number of women.

When women start doing work, that work becomes undervalued and underpaid.

Still, working mostly with members of your own sex

can be rewarding in other ways.

All the women I work with have quite a feminist angle to it.

We are very aware as a team of the need for women to help each other

and to work together. Coming up, we take a look at the female for women to help each other and to work together.

Coming up, we take a look at the female-dominated workplace.

I spoke to three guests for today's show.

One is a sociologist, two are listeners on different continents.

Each of them works largely with other women.

Each has things they like about it and things they wish they could change.

We're going to start in London.

My name is Lucy Goulet and I work for a British luxury fashion company and I also run a website

called Women in Foreign Policy about gender equality in foreign policy. Lucy was born and raised in

France. She came to London to go to university and she's been there ever since.

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