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for general wellness and fitness only. Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women,

the workplace and success. I'm Ashley Miltight. This experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success.

I'm Ashley Miltight.

This time on the show, Women in Politics, from someone who covers them.

Hillary Clinton and her emails, obviously this discussion of her emails and whether they were kept in a personal server is an important one. Does it require 500,000 articles over the past week

in and of itself? One's got to question that. To someone who spent much of her adult life as a

politician. It was a test. And in some ways it was a test every day. But every time I passed it, I felt exhilarated.

And she wants other women to follow in her footsteps.

Coming up, politics is power.

So why don't more women enter the arena? This episode of The Broad Experience is produced in partnership with The Financial Times, and my first guest is the FT's Washington Bureau Chief Megan Murphy.

Megan recently moved back to the US after 12 years working for the FT in London. I wanted to hear how she thought life for women in politics differed in each country. Now neither country scores high when it comes to the numbers of women in Parliament or Congress. The UK is number 57 in the world and the US is number 72. Megan says for one thing, in the US, a politician can

still run on a platform of so-called women's issues, and that isn't so much the case in Britain.

In the UK, relatively few people dispute that abortion should remain legal. Here in the US, abortion

is a raging debate. Many Americans think it's downright wrong and want to ban it.

You cannot underestimate if you're a European viewer or an Asian viewer of this issue, how much abortion still looms large.

Now, that's largely because so many senior Republicans feel that they simply cannot move away from

that because it does, it is still so important to the party's base.

But also you have to look at it in terms of, and this is where it does sort of dovetail with the UK,

but the wider debate I like to say about feminism and whether embracing feminism is a good thing or can be perceived as a bad thing, and you get shunted into this sort of shrill women screaming about women's rights issues.

You know, that is still a very live debate in the U.S.

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