Woman tells tales about technology standards (11)

'standards' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.

'woman tells tales about technology' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'woman' could be 'norma' and 'norma' is found within the answer.
'technology' could be 'it' (Information Technology) and 'it' is located in the answer.
'tales' could be 'lies' and 'lies' is present in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?