Burning questions: a more fire-prone world

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Jason Palmer.

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  And I'm Rosie Blaw.

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  Today on the show, the lean-in generation appears to be leaning out,

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  and the American cities rethinking what happens after dark.

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  First up, though,

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  At the turn of the millennium, a patient seeing a doctor in the UK

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  was twice as likely to see a man.

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  But last year, the number of female physicians exceeded those of men

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  for the first time.

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  Vinjeru Mkandawire is a news editor at The Economist.

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  Recently, though, things have started to shift.

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  It seems that the most highly qualified cohort of women in history

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  are starting to lean out.

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  Vinjeru, what does lean out mean?

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  Well, when you dig into the data on women at work,

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  several indicators are beginning to move in the wrong direction.

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  So, in 2024, a study by S&P found that

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  the share of new female executives at American listed companies

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