RT Journal Article
T1 Assessing gender inequality in digital labour platforms in Europe
A1 Rodríguez-Modroño, Paula
A1 López Igual, Purificación
A1 Pesole, Annarosa
K1 Digital labour platforms
K1 Gender
K1 Crowdworking
K1 Inequality
K1 Labour
K1 Standards
AB In this article we analyse digital labour platforms from a feminist approach, revealing the pervasiveness of gender inequalities through segregation and the highly asymmetrical model of gender relations and social reproduction. Our findings after examining data from the COLLEEM survey on platform workers in 16 European countries show that women’s participation in platform work is concentrated in more ‘feminised’ tasks, their work intensity in the platform is lower, and they have slightly worse working conditions and earnings than men. Our results suggest the need for a new analytic approach to platforms, which emphasises labour force heterogeneity, worker dependence in platform work, and changing gender relations.
PB Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
YR 2022
FD 2022-03-22
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22733
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22733
LA en
NO Internet Policy Review 11(1) | 2022
NO This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant number PID2019-105835RB-I00) and CENTRA (grant number PRY074/19).info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-105835RB-I00/ES/EL FUTURO DEL TRABAJO DESDE UNA OPTICA DE GENERO: LAS MUJERES EN LA 4ª REVOLUCION INDUSTRIAL/
NO Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica
DS RIO
RD May 9, 2026