Advancing Women in Tech through the Digital Platform Economy Scoping Study Focus Group Discussion

The pandemic has hastened ICT advancements in all sectors globally, paving the way for companies and digital platforms to bring together markets for tangible and intangible goods, and markets for labor.

Digital platform work1 .has proved to be beneficial for women, who are predominantly employed in sectors most adversely impacted and whose unpaid care and domestic work increased further during the pandemic.

2 While digital platform work helps reconcile the age-old conflict between women’s unpaid care work and paid market work, there is a degree of precariousness similar to informal work that puts them at risk of exploitation and hinders their full economic participation.

To help ensure that this emerging platform provides decent and sustainable employment and opportunities, the project builds on a policy study to define standards, terms of employment and incorporate adequate social protection for women tech workers in the digital platform economy.

Women’s Business Council Philippines (WomenbizPH) in partnership with Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) in collaboration with International Labor Organization (ILO) Conducted a series of Focus Group Discussion (FGD) for a Scoping Study in the Philippines.