Hidden inequalities: the gendered labour of women on micro-tasking platforms
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...
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| author | Paola Tubaro Marion Coville Clément Le Ludec Antonio A. Casilli |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-284dca8d3fe7412f835185a3d8c20db62023-11-06T17:24:53ZengAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and SocietyInternet Policy Review2197-67752022-02-01Volume 11Issue 110.14763/2022.1.1623Hidden inequalities: the gendered labour of women on micro-tasking platformsPaola Tubaro0Marion Coville1Clément Le Ludec2Antonio A. Casilli 3Université Paris-SaclayUniversity of PoitiersInstitut Polytechnique de ParisInstitut Polytechnique de ParisAround 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.https://policyreview.info/node/1623genderDigital platform labourGender biasInequalityWomenSocial capital |
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| title | Hidden inequalities: the gendered labour of women on micro-tasking platforms |
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| title_short | Hidden inequalities: the gendered labour of women on micro-tasking platforms |
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| topic | gender Digital platform labour Gender bias Inequality Women Social capital |
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