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This only covers full-time employees (software engineers, designers, and the like), right? Not any of their drivers?

• gringoDan 9y ago
  Correct. Some economists from Stanford & Uber actually did a fascinating analysis of the gender earnings gap for drivers. tl;dr - Men earn 7% more: > We find that the entire gender gap is caused by three factors: experience on the platform (learning-by-doing), preferences over where/when to work, and preferences for driving speed. https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/UberPayGap.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/UberPayGap.pdf Edit - I originally found out about this study from a Freakonomics podcast. These economists are chomping at the bit to get newer data (which will include tips). Their hypothesis is that women's earnings will increase, since women's tips are 10-20% greater than men's. However, they also say tipping increases the supply of drivers, which will serve to decrease utilization rate and thus lower hourly pay.