AI is reportedly set to disproportionately impact women

Artificial intelligence is coming for your job — and according to a new report, it’s coming faster if you’re a woman.

For technology designed to eliminate benign work, artificial intelligence is proving remarkably efficient at replicating workplace inequality.

Not that it will surprise any woman under the sun, but a new report from the UN’s International Labour Organisation has confirmed women are set to bear the brunt of AI-driven job disruption. You mean to say gender disparity is rearing its ugly head in yet another area of everyday life?

Around 9.6% of traditionally female roles are projected to be ‘transformed’ (ominous) by AI, compared with just 3.5% of male-dominated jobs. Considering women are more likely to inhabit lower-paid and undervalued roles, this is hardly revolutionary.

In higher-income countries, where tech adoption moves faster and clerical work is still largely feminised, the gap is even starker: 41% of women’s jobs are at risk, compared to 28% of men’s. But this tells us less about AI itself and more about the scaffolding of the modern labour market. If you’re job already lacked structural power, AI is simply removing the pretence.