The Emerging Global Technology Underclass
Mary L. Gray speaks with Catherine Powell as part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy Roundtable Series and Roundtable Series on Cybersecurity and Cyberconflict, discussing the global inequalities pervasive in the technology industry, and the workers, often women, vulnerable to the lack of regulations across the sector.
“Working for low wages and few benefits, a large but invisible workforce keeps the internet running. Through her research, Mary L. Gray sheds light on the workers—many of them women caring for young children and elders—who support the technology industry and the lack of regulations governing their labor. Mary L. Gray, senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, 2020 MacArthur fellow, and coauthor of the book Ghost Work, discusses what governments and the technology industry can do to address this emerging fault line of inequality.”
“The Emerging Global Technology Underclass” Mary L. Gray speaks with Catherine Powell as part of the Women and Foreign Policy Roundtable Series and Roundtable Series on Cybersecurity and Cyberconflict, Council on Foreign Relations, June 8, 2021