“I have to be honest,” says Anjali Krishan. “I didn’t realise how bad things can get for women and gender minorities in the platform industry. The amount of discrimination and abuse they face – there’s just such a pervasive sense of fear.”
A cultural anthropologist, Krishan has been studying the experiences of women and gender minorities for almost a decade. It was in India, while researching a rise in suicides among married women, that she first became interested in the effects of unpaid labour – and in the correlation between work and gender.
