According to ZenBusiness, the hourly rates for 6,000 freelances billed over 100 hours of work on the freelancing website Upwork show that men charge an average of $22.28 more hourly than women. With the growing of the gig economy, it is important to ensure equality through all branches of the freelance community. Some predictions place half of America’s workforce as freelancers by the year 2027. Any injustices found as standard precedents now eventually be the premise of millions of dollars favoring the male gender.

The highest pay gap is over $70 hourly for DevOps Engineering at $100.90 for men and $30 for women. Second comes at a $48.07 difference in System Administrations at $99.74 for men and $51.67 for women. The few instances of contrast giving the average woman more than men only comes to a difference no more than $6.64 in General Research Services. Many of these freelancing women found purpose in their actions by trying to avoid the problems they faced as an employee.

By attempting to escape workplace discrimination and corporate glass ceilings women began to find similar disparities in the freelancing world. Unless changes are made to refine the equality and integrity of freelance work for all genders, then there is no guarantee that the affects won’t be worse in the future.