This report examines the opportunities and challenges for gender equality in labour markets transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) and platform work. To do this, it assesses the following issues from a gender perspective:
In the past, many motor carriers tried to be gender blind in their hiring process. They insisted that they only hired, “the best driver.” However, over the years we’ve learned that women experience the trucking industry differently than men. While many of the challenges are the same, women prioritize things differently.
Despite growing awareness, many women face significant challenges related to menstruation, menopause, and fertility that they often feel unable to disclose at work, fearing career repercussions. It’s time to address these silent struggles and create a more supportive workplace environment.
Many policies promote work-family balance, i.e. a balance between work and personal life. What has more effect, however, is not the policies, but the leadership. Going back to what we saw in the July 2024 seminar, the most important thing is human relations and the links we develop: whether or not we trust our bosses, whether or not we can tell them about our challenges.
When François Rabelais said, “Laughter is man’s attribute”, he was of course talking about mankind… But the question still needs to be asked: are men and women equal when it comes to laughter?
To find out, let’s take a look at the figures and the scientific literature on the subject.
In fact, when we talk about the “situation of women in the past”, we’re referring to a specific situation: that of bourgeois women in the 19th century.
Bourgeois because in other environments, women have always worked outside the home or in family businesses.
The bourgeois idea we’re referring to was that of the “devoted mother”, the “obedient daughter”, submissive to the man and with no aspirations other than marriage and little else.
From the second half of the twentieth century onwards, women began to change this idea and feminisms were born.
Just as I like to talk about feminisms in the plural, I prefer to talk about women in the plural.
Women participate more actively in society, in politics, in their professions, because they also have a lot to say.
In that sense, I think we’ve won.
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