What would a feminist #futureofwork look like in the #DigitalEconomy? What would this look like in a post- #COVID world?

This thread follows from the @FESonline webinar on "Feminist Perspectives in the Asian Digital Economy"
#FutureWork4All #feministeconomies #digifemasia

The lowest segments of #platform economy have always been feminised. Think of women farmers who keep up supply of vegetables to grocery platforms, women warehouse assistants who work without a pee break, women who do monotonous work in data centres, women domestic help. (1/10)

In this economy, there's no room for social reproduction or a labour contract. (2/10)

Now the #PostCovid19 world presents us with a tragi-comic 'socialisation of business obligations'. Platform companies which denied workers their rights all along, are now appealing to the public to raise money – to offer security to workers. (3/10)

Meanwhile, small traders, street hawkers-mostly women-are in lockdown, with implications for household food security. Female-dominated sectors like agri, fisheries, food processing, textile, tourism, domestic work, retail will likely be worst hit by #COVID19. (4/10)

To turn our #DigitalFuture into a feminist future, we need to go local. We need to look at how data value chains can strengthen local economies of production and innovation in which women are visible and valued. (5/10)

A feminist digital economy can mean many things
-legally guaranteed right to the internet for women and free data allowance for poor women
-access to new training opportunities
-reaching and retraining women workers online. (6/10)

Broadly, the focus must be on domestic value chains in agriculture, #AI innovations that bring innovations to the public sector- health, energy transportation etc.-to find solutions to the socialisation of care and expand effective public provisioning of services. (7/10)

In the invisible pandemic of domestic violence that's followed on the heels of a #PostCovid19 stay-at-home normal, we see the economy’s connections to gender relations and norms laid bare. (8/10)

Without a new feminist global to local pact, we will put women in a corner. Business as usual will re-privatise women’s labour, erasing their contributions to value creation, and driving them out of the workforce and into homes. (9/10)