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• Life isn’t easy for the approximately 1 million women working as takeaway delivery riders in China.
• A group of social media influencers greatly increased the pressure on female riders last November by posting a series of memes that falsely eroticised them.
• They were also shown with food menus containing much higher prices than usual, implying that women who deliver food to people’s houses are also available as sex workers.

Female riders and sexual connotations

• Female riders make up around 10% of the workforce, and have always had to endure linguistic anomalies that have inadvertently differentiated and sexualised them.
• This has resulted in a tacit link between female riders and sex work in the popular consciousness.
• The incident has added another layer of understanding to my own research into female riders in China (which is yet to be published).

• Some of my interviewees even told me that they would not tell their parents about their work.
• This ranges from female employees being assigned to serve tea and welcome guests, to loaded comments about their appearance, to extreme cases in which the working environment is downright hostile to them.
• Certainly there are some male equivalents, but these examples all reduce women’s professional identities to tools for sexual gratification.

Rider protection

• It remains to be seen whether Meituan will continue pursuing the influencers or whether it will feel that they have been punished enough.
• Had this not been an issue of potential reputational damage for Meituan, it’s possible the female riders would have lacked employer protection, making them even more vulnerable.
• Being a female rider in a largely male occupation with crude stereotypes comes with a risk of violence and daily abuse.
• These riders need better protection in their work and the regulators clearly need to further clamp down on online misrepresentation and abuse.

Xiaohan Li does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

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