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Why is the internet still a hostile place for women?

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, Technology, News

4.3227 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dianne Olivan, Gender Engagement and Policy Officer, World Wide Web Foundation, and coordinator of the Women’s Rights Online Network, and Kerry Allen, the BBC's China media analyst discuss women and the internet. Dr Terence Leung, Dr Judith Meek and Dr Christabel Enweronu-Laryea on an app for diagnosing jaundice. Finn Myrstad from the Norwegian Consumer Council sets out his concerns about video game loot boxes. And Dr James Sumner, a historian of technology at Manchester University, on seventy years of technological change during Queen Elizabeth II's reign.

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This is TechTent, where we chew over the big issues in the technology world. I'm Zoe

0:45.9

Kleinman, the BBC's tech editor, and coming up this week, why is the internet still a more

0:51.0

hostile place if you're a woman? A smartphone app, which hopes to make it easier and cheaper to diagnose jaunders in babies

0:57.9

completes a major trial in Ghana.

1:00.6

A new report urges a clampdown on gaming loot boxes.

1:04.4

And it's 70 years since the Queen took to the throne here in the UK.

1:08.2

And historian tells us how the world of tech has transformed during her

1:11.9

reign. But first this week, the UK's media regulator of Com has published its annual survey

1:19.8

and it makes depressing reading if you're a woman. Women are more likely to face online abuse

1:25.4

or see harmful content than men.

1:31.7

Less than half of women feel able to give their opinions freely online.

1:35.6

Let's hear the experience of one British woman, Deo Akin Renade.

1:38.6

Here's what happened after she developed and launched an app.

1:48.6

In the week that Wisdom launched, I received a considerable amount of media and publicity and this in turn attracted the attention of trolls.

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