with everyone in the room. yes, it did make me feel quite self—conscious to simply make noise, but that was the whole point — for both the female, and maybe more importantly, male participants. reminding everyone of the importance of their voice being heard and valued. what did you think of the experience today? really good and epic. how much of a difference do you think it made learning about a subject like this in vr? i know more about history compared to other games. we can understand it rather than looking at old footage, which makes it seem as though it's boring. if we this way it is more fun watch. when we think about the suffragettes we think about these women, in starched, neat clothing, and we think they're not us. and actually when you hear what they say and the way that they say it and they are giggling and punk as hell, you think, 0k, actually you can teach me something about how i need to be. this isn't just about them.

do you think men and women are equal now? they're not equal. in what ways? men still get paid more than women. look at the buckets, one by one, and call out the names of the women who've inspired you. my mum! sonia! my mum! theresa! they seemed very excited when they could shout out the names of women who'd inspired them. who were yours? um, well, i'm only here because of tomorrow's world, the bbc science programme. and so maggie philbin and judith hann. ..before it can ever fly again. sadly, we may now have taken a step backwards in terms of female figures in technology. the 19705 saw the invention of the computer—driven wordprocessor, built by evelyn berezin, who died this week at the age of 93. in the 805, almost 40% of american computer science majors were women. but by 2012 this number had halved.

today, in silicon valley, the heart of tech innovation, women only make up a quarter of the workforce. and female founders, on average, get less than half the investment of their male counterparts. that's maybe not surprising when you hear that only 7% of investors are women. so with stats like these we end up living in the world where most things are still designed by men, even if they are designed for women. case in point, this audio interface was recently being marketed specifically to women. great, isn't it. . ? the company has since apologised. now, if the tech industry has issues with gender balance, you want to take a look at the maritime world, where just 2% of seafarers are female.

emily bates has been to snowy turku in finland, land of a thousand lakes, to track down a female captain whose career is about to be transformed by technology. there are many of them, but there are just a few ladies on board. but, yeah, if you do yourjob well, then it shouldn't be a problem. anu loved her life at sea, working her way up the ranks over many years. but once she started a family, she found it increasingly difficult. it became kind of obvious that i need to have a shorebased job to continue. i wouldn't want to miss them growing up. but new tech may allow anu to continue her career at sea while still coming home to herfamily each night. i went to turku to get on board what is being called the future of shipping.

ships like these make up part of finland's road network and complete millions ofjourneys each year. i'm about to get on one that doesn't have a driver. this ship has been retrofitted with a variety of sensors and cameras which allow it to navigate by itself. it can set sail, complete the crossing and even dock itself, all without any human intervention. anu has been heavily involved in the development of the tech. we have object detection, which is done by our intelligent awareness system, which is doing sensorfusion. it's using ais radar and camera to detect an object. this is going to the autonomous navigation system, which is then the brains who is kind of deciding whether these objects are dangerous for the vessel or not and whether we need to avoid them. while ship's captains like anu

won't eventually be on board, they will be piloting multiple craft from the shore. should something go wrong with an autonomous vessel, one of these places will be able to take control of it from onshore and steer it to safety no matter where it was in the world. this technology may never be a substitute for the romance of the sea, but it could let people like anu balance the life they want using their years of training and expertise with family life. afghanistan — a country in turmoil. leading an ordinary life in this war—ravaged country is hard, especially if you're female. it's been described as the worst place on earth to be a woman.

kabul‘s babur gardens were lit up this week to mark the close of the un's 16 days of activism to end gender—based violence. yet in the western city of herat, this group of teenage girls cast aside day—to—day concerns over safety, security and mere survival to do something most girls in this country can only dream of. aptly, they are known as the afghan dreamers. translation: every child has a dream, robotics became mine when i watched cartoons with robots as a six—year—old kid. seeing them walking and talking like humans made me think about how they're built, and what makes them different from us. every week, they get together to code and build robots. their inventions are trying to find solutions to very local problems.

translation: more than 8096 of the afghan population works in agriculture, which is still a very manual process here. we would like to change that. our bot can cut wheat and handle the first process, and eventually we would like it to separate the wheat as well, making it easier for the farmer. fatima is the team leader. unusually, her father had greatly encouraged her, only tragically she lost him last year in a suicide bombing, a stark reminder of life here. the girls won last year's prestigious robotex contest in estonia, and that gave them the chance to be able to better their device. so this year, they've gone back with the improved version hoping they could win the big—money prize on offer this time around. congratulations on reaching the final of the competition,

how are you feeling? i'm so excited for this. so we have in here two robots. as you know, saffron is so famous in afghanistan. it is hard for women collecting the saffron by hand. so with this robot, we can help them to collecting all the saffron easier than by hand. we can cut the saffron in here and then we have a process in here. we can do process, and then in here we have an elevator so all saffron can go in here. from there, they can be packaged and transported by the other robot. as a girl interested in robotics in afghanistan, what challenges are you up against? the big challenge is that some families don't allow their girls to go to a robotics convention, because they think a girl isjust for home. i think it's wrong because girls can be like man to do something. i want to be a mechanical engineer in the future, and i want to help my country to improve there, like, customs, whatever they want.

so i want to help them. while change won't come overnight, we may be seeing the dawn of a generation who want to think anything is possible, and surely that's a start. that's all we have time for for the short version of click. the full version is on the bbc iplayer. to keep up with the team throughout the week you can find us on facebook and twitter... @bbcclick. on instragram... @bbcclick. at youtube.com/... bbcclick. thanks for watching. see you soon. hello. what a difference a day

makes. i don't think we will see a return to the snowy, icy conditions. when storm deirdre swept into that colder error yeah, that brought the dangerous conditions yesterday. instead, everything is coming from the atlantic. cloud will bring rain. one area of rain heading across the uk right now. it's not really troubling central and northern parts of scotland, where we had a beautiful sunset in the highlands, but it has been a different story in warwickshire in the midlands, wet weather for the drive during the evening. the rain moves away from wales, heading east across tingling, clipping southern scotland and heading into the north sea in the early hours. apart from one or two showers, we should have clear skies and light winds. it will be cold overnight, temperatures not a wave

from freezing, so a touch of frost, particularly in raw role areas. misty over the snowfields in scotla nd misty over the snowfields in scotland tomorrow, with wind picking up scotland tomorrow, with wind picking up in the west, cloud increasing and through the afternoon in particular a little rain arriving, too. a southerly wind, so drawing in mild air. gales are likely by the end of the day, but 12 celsius possible in belfast. the rain will be a feature of the weather as we move overnight and into tuesday. low pressure coming into play later in the week. the rain, first, it's moving slowly east across our shores, winds picking up overnight, so a windy stop the dues day, with gales around western coasts for a while. you can see how slowly the rain moves to the east. there may be some flooding issues by the end of the day. improving laterfor issues by the end of the day. improving later for northern ireland, but it takes all day for the rain to reach east anglia. temperatures on the mild side, io-iidc. the temperatures on the mild side, io—iidc. the rain moves east

overnight, tending to move away, then low pressure starts to wonder its way towards our shores. there will be sunshine around on wednesday, some showers clipping the south—east for a while, but most of the showers arriving to northern ireland and later into western scotla nd ireland and later into western scotland and into western parts of england and wales. showers and maybe longer spells of rain. temperatures area longer spells of rain. temperatures are a little longer on wednesday, 7-10dc. this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at eight... theresa may's brexit deal — a senior minister suggests mps could have a ‘free vote', and rejects a further referendum. let me tell you that if there is another referendum, which i don't think there will be, people like me will be immediately demanding it is best—of—three. a 5—year—old boy becomes the third victim of a house fire in nottinghamshire. his mother and eight—year old sister died yesterday.

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