Iron butterflies

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Men still dominate the list of 'Who's Who' in Asian business. Yet, increasingly, some of the wealthy and identifiable personalities in Asia are women. As more and more Asian women become Western educated, their level of public involvement in business and society will rise. In this episode we meet Joyce Mar, who is credited with bringing ready-to-wear European fashion to the glamour conscious and big spending women of Hong Kong; Yoshiko Shinohara, who after a secretarial stint in Australia, built her own empire and now runs Japan's second largest employment agency with 82 offices; and Asma Abdullah, a Malaysian anthropologist with a degree from Monash University in Melbourne, who has become a corporate specialist in Academic and Human resources.