4. Leveraging Platforms to Bridge the Gender Divide and Drive Inclusive Growth: Perspectives and Recommendations from India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Preface 11
5. Introduction
6. The Tangled Web of Women in Work: A Feminist Account 17
7. Design
8. 1. AI Design of Ride-hailing Platforms : A Feminist Analysis of Workers’ Precarity 29
9. 2. Making Opportunities Inclusive for First-time Digital Users 45
10. 3. Globalized Creative Economies : Rethinking Local Craft, Provenance, and Platform Design 53
11. 4. Leveraging Platforms to Bridge the Gender Divide and Drive Inclusive Growth: Perspectives and Recommendations from India 61
12. 5. Women Resellers in India’s Gig Economy: From Access to Confidence 77
13. 6. Whisper Networks and Workarounds : Negotiating Urban Company’s Interface 87
14. Governance
15. 7. Entrepreneurs Craft the Future of Collective Artisanal Economies in Bangladesh 101
16. 8. Enabling Women’s Digital Participation : The Case for Meaningful Connectivity 113
17. 9. Not Quite the Death of Distance in Chennai : Challenging the Resettlement Utopia of Perumbakkam 127
18. 10. Superbrands—Too Big to be Fair? 143
19. 11. Teachers in India and EdTech: A New Part of the Gig Economy? 157
20. 12. Migrant Workers and Digital Inclusion in the Construction Sector in India 167
21. Networks
22. 13. What Lies in the Shadows of a Stakeholder Analysis? A Methodological Analysis to Contextualize the Lives of Women Workers in the Global South 187
23. 14. Why Stories Matter for Representation, Action, and Collectivization 197
24. 15. Ethical Consumerism: Gig Economy’s Road Ahead 207
25. 16. Converging Forces : Navigating Climate Change and the Future of Work in Developing Countries 217
26. 17. Challenging Capitalist Patriarchy and Negotiating for Women Worker Rights: Exploring the “Right to Sit” Movement in Kerala 231
27. 18. Digital Leisure and Aspirational Work among Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant Women in Brazil 241
28. Vision
29. 19. Beyond Underpaid Women and Robots : Towards a Better Future of Care Work 255
30. 20. Work and Place: The Non-Boundaries of Women’s Work 267
31. 21. The Future of Dishonourable Work 277
32. 22. The Future of Development Innovation and Finance is Feminist 287
33. 23. Rethinking a Crippled Society 293
34. Conclusion: Defining FemWork for Labour Futures 301
35. List of Tables, Graphs, and Figures 311
36. Bibliography 313
37. Index 345