The Gig Economy Makes Workers Vulnerable to Sexual Harassment

Clients have a good idea of who they’re hiring or letting into their homes, but workers don’t have the same luxury

Alexandrea Ravenelle
OneZero
Published in
8 min readMar 27, 2019

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IInviting someone to your home can be a signal of familial closeness, friendship, or sexual desire. Rarely do we let visitors into our bedrooms or onto our couches. We…

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Alexandrea Ravenelle
OneZero
Writer for

Author of Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy (2019), Visiting Scholar at IPK at NYU & Asst. Professor at Mercy College.