Unlocking Access: Technology as a Tool for Transgender Economic Justice

Title

Unlocking Access: Technology as a Tool for Transgender Economic Justice

Creator

Baruah, Bhargabi; Bhardwaj, Sonika

Description

The Transgender community across the world face discrimination from all walks of life. The transgender, even if educated and skilled, faces multiple hurdles during the employment process and within the workplace once employed. The challenges have even increased with COVID-19 and mass layoffs affecting employees across the globe. Transgender people have to be empowered to face the challenges of employment processes and workplace challenges as and when they arise. With the advancement of digital technologies, the Fourth Industrial Revolution can be leveraged for training, empowerment, awareness, network building, grievance redressal and sustainability for the transgender community. Digital technologies leverage the community to collaborate and be vocal about their needs and rights at a global level. Digital technology also helps the transgender community reach the proper forum to implement the required program for the benefit of the community. The decentralized and anonymous system for recording data and reporting incidents will also be a helpful, transparent process without being subject to unnecessary scrutiny. The technology-enabled system and practices will also help the companies and institutions to ascertain appropriate and efficient methods for creating gender gender-neutral environment devoid of any discrimination. Recently, there was a significant rise in concerns about employment practices for the LGBTQ community around the globe during the pandemic, such as lockdown protocols affecting employment conditions, vaccine access, support from employers, severance pay, mental health, etc. The International ecosystem has seen minimal regulatory discussion, and individual countries and companies are now implementing schemes to address the issue faced by transgender individuals in the employment and work ecosystem through the infusion of technologies. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026.

Source

Studies in Systems, Decision and Control;Volume;646;pp.765-776

Date

01-01-2026

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Subject

Digital transformation; Employment rights; Gender equality; Workplace technology

Coverage

Baruah B., School of Law, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Bhardwaj S., School of Law, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library

Relation

ISSN: 21984182;

Format

online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-11612-3_66

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