Women Gig Workers Raise Pressure for Labour Reform

Summary

Women in the gig economy. Work in the ‘gig economy’ relies on digital platforms to bring workers and purchasers of their services together. It has brought new jobs for women but also reinforced existing gender divides in the labour market, with more women, for example, in domestic work than in transport and storage sectors of the gig economy.

The gig economy is expanding work opportunities for women, but older prejudices and new constraints are also surfacing

Headings

• Widening reach
• Gender paygap
• Over-representation in low-paid work
• Minimal protections
• Regulatory flux
• US experience
• UK stance
• New forms of collective action?
• Voluntary associations
• Platform cooperative movement
• Legislative changes
• Government action
• Corporate action
• Outlook