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

Artikel

Around the world, myriad workers perform micro-tasks on online platforms to train and calibrate artificial intelligence solutions. Despite its apparent openness to anyone with basic skills, this form of crowd-work fails to fill gender gaps, and may even exacerbate them. We demonstrate this result in three steps. First, inequalities in both the professional and domestic spheres turn micro-tasking into a 'third shift' that adds to already heavy schedules. Second, the human and social capital of male and female workers differ-leaving women with fewer career prospects within a tech-driven workforce. Third, female micro-work reproduces relegation of women to lower-level computing work observed in the history of science and technology.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Internet Policy Review ; ISSN: 2197-6775 ; Volume: 11 ; Year: 2022 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-26 ; Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
• Subject: gender ; Digital platform labour ; Gender bias ; Inequality ; Women ; Social capital

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Tubaro, Paola ; Coville, Marion ; Le Ludec, Clément ; Casilli, Antonio A.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2022

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.14763/2022.1.1623
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/254273
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET