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Time of India
4 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
AI poses a greater threat to women in the workforce, but why? ILO study reveals alarming gender gap predictions
Behind the Numbers: Why Women Are More at Risk You Might Also Like: Is the AI takeover driving Gen Z back to traditional jobs amid uncertainty in white-collar careers? Beyond Clerical: The Expanding Reach of AI The Gendered Future of Work Technology Isn't Neutral—Policy Shouldn't Be Either As artificial intelligence continues to sweep through offices, industries, and workflows, a new global study has laid bare a stark gender disparity in its impact. According to the United Nations' International Labour Organization (ILO), women are three times more likely than men to lose their jobs to AI-driven automation. In an age already defined by digital transformation, this revelation has added a sobering new layer to the conversation around technological high-income nations, nearly 10% of female-held jobs fall under high-risk categories susceptible to AI automation. That's a striking contrast to just 3.5% of male-held roles. This isn't just a statistic—it's a glimpse into a future where automation may not only rewrite job descriptions, but exacerbate existing inequalities in the labor ILO's findings were compiled through an innovative index that calculates the risk of job transformation or outright replacement by AI. The roles most under threat? Clerical and administrative jobs—positions heavily populated by include typists, bookkeepers, data entry clerks, and even roles traditionally requiring specialized skills like financial analysts and software developers. The reason for the high exposure lies in the very nature of these jobs—repetitive, rule-based, and digitized—which makes them ripe for replacement by tools like generative AI.'Clerical jobs face the highest exposure of all,' the ILO report states, pointing out that GenAI can theoretically replicate many of their tasks. Senior economist Janine Berg warns against buying into the AI hype without a grounded understanding: 'What we need is clarity and context. This tool helps countries across the world assess potential exposure and prepare their labor markets for a fairer digital future.'What's particularly unsettling is that it's not just low-level clerical work under threat. As AI capabilities expand, so does its reach into more cognitively demanding roles. The ILO notes that jobs in software, finance, and media are now showing signs of increased vulnerability due to their highly digitized suggests that even women in high-skill, high-pay roles aren't immune. The AI wave is not just washing over entry-level tasks—it's creeping into creative and analytical domains that were once considered safe from some roles—like cleaners, dentists, performers, and garbage collectors—remain relatively shielded from AI, the jobs being replaced are more commonly held by women. This imbalance risks widening existing gender gaps in employment , pay, and career Troszyński, senior expert at NASK and co-author of the ILO study, stressed the tool's significance in guiding national policy: 'This index helps identify where GenAI is likely to have the biggest impact, so countries can better prepare and protect workers.'The ILO is now urging governments, employers, and labor organizations to work collaboratively on proactive strategies. The goal: harness AI to enhance job quality and productivity without sacrificing inclusion and equity in the its core, the ILO's study is a warning siren: AI doesn't operate in a vacuum. It mirrors and magnifies existing societal structures—biases included. As the global workforce braces for the inevitable AI reshaping, there's a clear call to timely intervention, the automation revolution could become yet another chapter in the long history of gendered labor inequality. But with strategic planning, policy engagement, and equitable design, the rise of AI doesn't have to come at the cost of women's future is being written by algorithms—but who gets to keep their job may depend on the decisions we make today.
Al Etihad
20-05-2025
- Business
- Al Etihad
One in four jobs at risk of being transformed by Generative AI: ILO
20 May 2025 15:47 GENEVA (ALETIHAD) A new joint study from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Poland's National Research Institute (NASK) found that 1 in 4 jobs worldwide is potentially exposed to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) — but that transformation, not replacement, is the most likely report, launched on May 20, and titled 'Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure', introduces the most detailed global assessment to date of how GenAI may reshape the world of index provides a unique and nuanced snapshot of how AI could transform occupations and employment across countries, by combining nearly 30,000 occupational tasks with expert validation, AI-assisted scoring, and ILO harmonised micro Gmyrek, ILO Senior Researcher and lead author of the study, said, 'We went beyond theory to build a tool grounded in real-world jobs. By combining human insight, expert review, and generative AI models, we've created a replicable method that helps countries assess risk and respond with precision."The report's key findings include a new 'exposure gradients', which cluster occupations according to their level of exposure to Generative AI, help policymakers distinguish between jobs at high risk of full automation and those more likely to evolve through task transformation.25% of global employment falls within occupations potentially exposed to GenAI, with higher shares in high-income countries (34 percent).Exposure among women continues to be significantly higher. In high-income countries, jobs at the highest risk of automation make up 9.6% of female employment - a stark contrast to 3.5% of such jobs among jobs face the highest exposure of all, due to GenAI's theoretical ability to automate many of their tasks. However, the expanding abilities of GenAI result in an increased exposure of some highly digitised cognitive jobs in media-, software- and finance-related job automation, however, remains limited, since many tasks, though done more efficiently, continue to require human involvement. The study highlights the possibly divergent paths for occupations accustomed to rapid digital transformations – such as software developers – and those where limited digital skills might have more negative guiding the digital transitions will be a leading factor in determining the extent to which workers may be retained in occupations that are transforming as a result of AI, and how such transformation affects job Troszyński, Senior Expert at NASK and one of co-authors of the new paper, said, 'This index helps identify where GenAI is likely to have the biggest impact, so countries can better prepare and protect workers. Our next step is to apply this new index to detailed labour force data from Poland."The ILO–NASK study emphasised that the figures reflect potential exposure, not actual job losses. Technological constraints, infrastructure gaps, and skills shortages mean that implementation will differ widely by country and sector. Crucially, the authors stress that GenAI's effect is more likely to transform jobs than eliminate them. The report called on governments, employers', and workers' organisations to engage in social dialogue and shape proactive, inclusive strategies that can enhance productivity and job quality, especially in exposed sectors.
