Tuesday, 6 February 2018
The gig economy was supposed to be the great equalizer. Shuttling people around town, shopping for groceries, or putting up with a temporary tenant are about as gender neutral as a job can get. So why are men earning seven percent more when driving for Uber? A new study thinks it has pinpointed the cause. And if you’re assuming it’s sexism — a fair guess considering Uber’s reportedly toxic culture and past issues with female employees — you’d be wrong. The study, co-authored by Uber, Stanford, and the University of Chicago, relied on two years of Uber data from 1.9…
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