We would like to invite you to the presentation on "Gender aspects in platform work“, held by Dr. Isabell Hensel. The presentation will be taking place on Wednesday the 8th of December, from 6:15 pm until around 08:00 pm. Due to the recent developments in the Corona pandemic it will exclusively take place via Zoom.
Platform work has influenced the world of work in a variety of ways, and has most recently taken form in Germany’s federal labour court with the so called "Crowd-worker-decree". In the area of legal sciences, discussions on this topic mainly focus on the legal status of Crowd-, Gig- or Cloud-workers. In contrast, research on gender specific effects of platform work is still rare, although especially U.S. American literature has acknowledged many issues involving gender, like salary differences between men and women, admission requirements, contract binding pressure, sexual harassment, physical assault as well as discriminating algorithms.
Dr. Isabell Hensel is an academic employee at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), where she does research in the field of labour law 4.0, platform economy, sociology of law and gender studies. In light of her work at the expert commission of the federal German parliament, she has studied the relevance of gender equality in platform work. She will share some results of her work in her presentation. To better plan the event we would like to ask you to register via email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) beforehand. You can find the brochure for the event here.
Platform work has influenced the world of work in a variety of ways, and has most recently taken form in Germany’s federal labour court with the so called "Crowd-worker-decree". In the area of legal sciences, discussions on this topic mainly focus on the legal status of Crowd-, Gig- or Cloud-workers. In contrast, research on gender specific effects of platform work is still rare, although especially U.S. American literature has acknowledged many issues involving gender, like salary differences between men and women, admission requirements, contract binding pressure, sexual harassment, physical assault as well as discriminating algorithms.
Dr. Isabell Hensel is an academic employee at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), where she does research in the field of labour law 4.0, platform economy, sociology of law and gender studies. In light of her work at the expert commission of the federal German parliament, she has studied the relevance of gender equality in platform work. She will share some results of her work in her presentation. To better plan the event we would like to ask you to register via email (