• iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So what I dislike about this is that the driver is the one choosing. If the customer was placing their preference, and then Lyft agrees to attempt to place them with their preference (for a surcharge of course, priority service shouldn’t be free) that would be something I could get behind. Letting drivers flat refuse service to someone based solely on their gender sounds like opening the doors to discrimination suits.

    • philodendron@lemdro.id
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      1 year ago

      Conceptually, sure. But I imagine it’d be a potential lawsuit over workplace discrimination. Especially if the female drivers are being paid more for the same service.

      • bob_wiley@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Seems like this opens the door for a lawsuit to matter what. This isn’t much different than a taxi driver driving past a black guy to pick up a white guy. Just gender instead of race, and programmed into the system as a feature so they can’t even argue that they don’t have a bias.

      • alp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        Female workers make more in a number or jobs, especially pretty or flirtatious women make much more in jobs that have tips