Gender inequalities in digital labour platforms echo those in the traditional labour market.
News and Research articles on gender
This paper considers the logic of ‘platform care’ as a continuation of historically invisibilised reproductive labour.
This study applies a “doing gender” perspective and intersectionality theory to examine the gendered access to the European sharing economy.
This introduction to the special issue provides the state of the art of research on the interplay between the platform economy and gender.
We provide a theoretical framework to systematise content gaps in Wikipedia and then use it to examine how this platform shapes women's visibility.
UpWork affordances are gendered affordances, since male users are allowed different conducts compared to female freelancers, who experience cyberviolence. UpWork serves as a case study to investigate the relationship between digital platform functioning and gender inequality in a platform economy context.
Findings from other countries indicate that women drop out of platform work twice as quickly as men. We showcase that Serbian women crowdworkers have the same survival rates as men as long as they have the same level of skills and education.
This paper is part of The gender of the platform economy , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Mayo Fuster Morell, Ricard Espelt and David Megias. Introduction Wanghong is short for the Chinese term “wangluo hongren”: people who have gone viral online. Covering a wide spectrum of participants including video uploader, vlogger
Platform micro-work fails to fill the legacy gaps that separate women from rewarding tech careers, and maintains them in low-level roles.
Drawing from science and technology studies (STS) and a feminist law critique, this article argues that procedural law is insufficient when addressing algorithmic discrimination and that ex ante protection may be a better way forward.
