Report Launch: Gender and Platform Work

Fairwork’s 'Gender and Platform Work' report is based on research into working conditions which spans 4 years, 38 countries, over 190 unique platforms, and interviews with more than 5000 platform workers. It finds that commonplace practices in the platform economy, such as failing to guarantee a living wage, unsafe working conditions, and inadequately tackling gender-based discrimination, risk widening the gender pay gap, reducing workforce participation rates and cementing gender inequities.

The report concludes that platforms need to be more responsive to women and gender minorities. Fairwork’s five principles — fair pay, fair conditions, fair contracts, fair management, and fair representation — are a guide for how platforms can do better. 

KEYNOTE 1: Noémi Bürkl, Head of the Unit Digitalisation, BMZ

KEYNOTE 2: Dr Uma Rani, Senior Economist, ILO

EXPERT PANEL:
• Dr Kavita Dattani, Oxford Internet Institute
• Tanja Jakobi, Fairwork Serbia
• Dr Anjali Krishan, Oxford Internet Institute
• Dr Cheryll Soriano, Fairwork Philippines
• Prof Janaki Srinivasan, Fairwork India