AI’s Gendered Impact: Workforce Disruption and Inclusive Futures

The provided source explores the gendered impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on the workforce, highlighting how AI's transformative power poses disproportionate risks to women's employment. It explains that occupational segregation places women in roles highly susceptible to automation while also concentrating them in low-wage "safe" jobs that offer little economic advancement. Furthermore, the text details how a gender gap in AI adoption and skills, coupled with algorithmic bias in AI systems, creates compounding barriers for women in the evolving job market. The source concludes by advocating for proactive policy, corporate responsibility, and inclusive upskilling frameworks to ensure a more equitable AI-powered future, emphasizing the need to move from a narrative of displacement to one of augmentation and human-AI collaboration.

Research done with the help of artificial intelligence, and presented by two AI-generated hosts.