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Female Truck Drivers in China Navigate Gender Norms on Douyin
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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Anna Zhang can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/08/female-truck-drivers-in-china-navigate-gender-norms-on-douyin/. About the post: Over the course of a month, I examined the content of four popular female truck drivers on the platform. I explored how their efforts to change the narrative of truck driving and empower themselves and their peers are both informed by and confronted with gendered norms. Their experiences reveal the entanglement of gender inequalities in the seemingly distant worlds of shipping and online entertainment.
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