The sharing economy helps women find new economic opportunities in Jordan.
Published in The Conversation.
Across the world, women face online stalking, threats to their reputation and surveillance or monitoring of their online activities.
In many countries, threats to safety and privacy limit women’s access to information and communication technologies.
I’m a scholar of gender and development, and my forthcoming Ph.D. research with women in Jordan reveals a more complicated relationship between surveillance and freedom, as surveillance activities there often allow greater autonomy for women to work.