Sorry, techies – I don’t need your gadgets in my vagina

From period trackers to a vaginal sound system, new devices imply that there is something wrong down there that needs to be monitored with constant vigilance

Women have been tracking their menstrual cycles since at least the time of Saint Augustine, and yet when Apple introduced its much ballyhooed smartwatch and Health app in 2014, there was one glaring omission: a period tracker.

The fact that it took Apple three months longer than it takes a woman to gestate a human life to update its app to include periods and other reproductive health data was hardly surprising coming from a company - and industry - that systematically excludes women. Apple's tech workforce is just 22% female, about in line with the rest of the major tech companies - or thumbs as a percentage of fingers.