News and Research articles on Digital platform labour

This introduction to the special issue provides the state of the art of research on the interplay between the platform economy and gender.

KEYWORDS: gender, Digital platforms, Digital platform labour, Digital inequality, Feminism, Feminist economy, Labour

gender

Don’t blame the internet: it has little to do with gender inequality in crowd work

Branka Andjelkovic, CENTAR, Public Policy Research Center
Tanja Jakobi, CENTAR, Public Policy Research Center

PUBLISHED ON: 22 Mar 2022

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.

Platform micro-work fails to fill the legacy gaps that separate women from rewarding tech careers, and maintains them in low-level roles.

KEYWORDS: gender, Digital platform labour, Gender bias, Inequality, Women, Social capital

News and Research articles on Digital platform labour

The gender of the platform economy

Don’t blame the internet: it has little to do with gender inequality in crowd work

Hidden inequalities: the gendered labour of women on micro-tasking platforms

peer reviewed

not peer reviewed