The flexibility of the gig economy was supposed to eliminate the gender pay gap.
At Uber it didn't:
...the entire gender gap is caused by three factors: experience on the platform (learning-by-doing),
preferences over where/when to work, and preferences for driving speed. This suggests that,
as the gig economy grows and brings more flexibility in employment, women’s relatively high
opportunity cost of non-paid-work time and gender-based preference differences can perpetuate
a gender earnings gap even in the absence of discrimination.
HT: Peter Klein
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