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Lyft is introducing a new feature that lets women and non-binary riders choose a preference to match with drivers of the same gender.

Lyft is introducing a new feature that lets women and non-binary riders choose a preference to match with drivers of the same gender.

The ride-hailing company said it was a “highly requested feature” in a blog post Tuesday, saying the new feature allows women and non-binary people to “feel that much more confident” in using Lyft and also hopefully encourage more women to sign up to be drivers to access its “flexible earning opportunities.”

The service, called “Women+ Connect,” is rolling out in the coming months. Riders can turn on the option in the Lyft app, however the company warns that it’s not a guarantee that they’ll be matched with a women or non-binary person if one of those people aren’t nearby. Both the riders and drivers will need to opt-in to the feature for it work and riders must chose a gender for it to work.

  • @cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4•10 months ago

    Lol no.

    Equity in this case is providing additional opportunities for education to those who need it.

    • JasSmith
      4•10 months ago

      Equity in this case is providing additional opportunities for education to those who need it.

      That would be equality. Everyone given the same opportunity to benefit from resources on the basis of need. Equity would be providing additional resources to people on the basis of race, for example, irrespective of their need. The purpose of which to ensure outcomes are equitable.

      • @cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•10 months ago

        Again, no.

        Equity is explicitly about need. Equality is irrespective of need. This is literally the definition I gave at the start of this discussion.

        Obviously to enact equitable policies, you can’t handle things on a case-by-case basis, because that doesn’t scale. You have to find metrics that correlate with need. The only policies that scale are those that target cohorts rather than individuals.

        In the example of school funding, reasonable cohorts can be derived from income level and relatedly (for historical reasons in the US) race.

        • An equitable policy would be to provide additional school funding to impoverished communities.
        • An equal policy would be to provide the same funding to all communities.
        • An unequal policy would be to provide funding in accordance with something inversely proportional to need, like property value.
        • An oblivious policy would be to provide funding in accordance with something orthogonal to need, like the day of the week.

        In the case of ride-share safety for both riders and drivers, gender is a decent axis for defining cohorts.

      • darq
        -1•10 months ago

        Maybe I am missing this in the article but which education is being provided by Lyft?

        You gave an example of a school. It’s really obvious that the above poster was addressing the example that you gave.

        • JasSmith
          1•10 months ago

          That wasn’t clear to me but thanks for clarifying. I’ll edit my comment above.

    • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      2•10 months ago

      If you are providing additional X to a subset of people it is by definition not equality. The two are jot compatible.

      • @agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1•10 months ago

        If the two people didnt start in the exact same place then they were already unequal though. So the equity option just makes them closer to equal, equality is not measured in simply ‘how much you get for free’. I work with people with disabilities getting more ‘free’ support than you or I will ever see, are they more equal than the rest of us for it?

        • @kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world
          3•10 months ago

          That is literally the distinction between equality and equity. There are different words that mean close to similar things.