This report by the McKinsey Global Institute highlights that women will need to make far more significant transitions in the future of work compared to men and may find it more difficult to capture new opportunities because of the persistent barriers they face.
For nearly 30 years, women’s share of the global labour force has been stuck stubbornly around the 39% mark; progress toward gender equality in work is glacial. Now a new game-changer has arrived in the form of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Could these technologies be part of the breakthrough working women need, vaulting them into opportunities and narrowing the gender gap in work? Or will these technologies leave women even further behind?
McKinsey’s recent research finds that automation is likely to displace men and women more or less equally over the next decade. But, as a result of that displacement, women will need to make far more significant transitions in the future of work compared to men and may find it difficult to capture new opportunities because of the persistent barriers they face.