This study examines the Lunch Bell project, a state-supported, women-centred meal delivery platform in Kerala, India, embodying a digital solidarity economy that promotes sustainability and addresses gender inequalities through its inclusive labour model.
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According to recent studies, Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) output discriminates against women. On testing ChatGPT, terms such as “expert” and “integrity” were used to describe men, while women were associated with “beauty” or “delight”. This was the case while using the Large Language Model, Alpaca, a model developed by Stanford University to produce recommendation letters for potential employees.
Gender inequalities in digital labour platforms echo those in the traditional labour market.
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, popular accounts on diverse social media, wanghong refers to a particular stream of vocational Chinese internet celebrities that have acquired their celebrity online and have acute incentives through various models to liquidate such online influence by transforming followers into consumers (Han, 2020a). As of late, the wanghong economy in China …
Platform micro-work fails to fill the legacy gaps that separate women from rewarding tech careers, and maintains them in low-level roles.
This analysis of digital technologies aimed at supporting survivors of sexual and gender-based violence illustrates how they reaffirm normative whiteness.
The UK welfare system relies on gender stereotyping and, increasingly, on surveillance: risking a vicious cycle of categorisation and control
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.