The study has taken a multidimensional approach to critically analyze women workers’
engagement within the gig economy, particularly in the platform economy in India. The study looks at women
workers in the four work sectors where they were found to be mostly engaged in viz. domestic work, beauty work,
cab driving and food delivery in three urban cities namely Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru and Mumbai. The report also
explores a larger question of changing modalities of gig platforms in India in the context of its increasingly
informalized economy, its gendered structures and practices and working conditions, by juxtaposing these ideas
with worker rights. The study takes the lens of gender and labour on a gig platform and explores this framework
through various aspects of gig economy shaping up in India. For this purpose, in-depth interviews were
conducted with a wide range of actors in the ‘gig universe’ viz. women workers, platform representatives,
government officials, skill development institutes and trade union members, across the four sectors.
