News and Research articles on Women

Volume 11, Issue 1

Addressing gendered affordances of the platform economy: the case of UpWork

Elisabetta Stringhi, University of Milan
PUBLISHED ON: 22 Mar 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1634

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.

KEYWORDS: Digital platforms, Women, Platform economy, gender, Inequality, Cybercrime
Volume 11, Issue 1

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

Paola Tubaro, Université Paris-Saclay
Marion Coville, University of Poitiers
Clément Le Ludec, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Antonio A. Casilli, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
PUBLISHED ON: 22 Feb 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1623

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