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Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world.

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.

Tech Life: Wearable Devices and Sexism in Tech

21/03/2014

Wearable Devices and Sexism in Tech

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Wearable Devices and Sexism in Tech

Is there money in wearable devices? And the reality for women engineers in Silicon Valley

Is there really big money in wearable devices? And the experiences of women engineers in Silicon Valley on how they're treated by male colleagues. Rory Cellan-Jones presents.

Why the satellite technology used in the hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner isn't quite as sophisticated as we might think. Also, is there really big money to be made in wearable devices? And the experiences of women engineers in Silicon Valley on how they're treated by their male colleagues. 

Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest Belinda Parmar, CEO of the creative agency Lady Geek, and Dave Lee and Carolyn Rice from the BBC Online technology desk.

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