Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds
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Re: Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds
#2If you actually read the article, it's not necessarily losing their jobs (emphasis mine). IMO it is irresponsible of the website to misrepresent the study so radically.
> The study, which focused on generative AI, determined that 9.6% of jobs held by females in high-income countries are poised for transformation, compared to 3.5% of those held by men. It added that most roles would likely be radically changed instead of eliminated
Re: Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds
#3If you actually read the article, it's not necessarily losing their jobs (emphasis mine). IMO it is irresponsible of the website to misrepresent the study so radically. > The study, which focused on generative AI, determined that 9.6% of jobs held by females in high-income countries are poised for transformation, compared to 3.5% of those held by men. It added that most roles would likely be radically changed instead…
They need their clicks. lol
Re: Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds
#4If you actually read the article, it's not necessarily losing their jobs (emphasis mine). IMO it is irresponsible of the website to misrepresent the study so radically. > The study, which focused on generative AI, determined that 9.6% of jobs held by females in high-income countries are poised for transformation, compared to 3.5% of those held by men. It added that most roles would likely be radically changed instead…
... and I'm going to speculate that a relatively simple explanation for this difference is that men hold more manual labor jobs than women and those jobs are going to be transformed less by AI than office jobs.
Re: Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds
#5Misleading - the study did not find any job loss, it collected "perceive[d] potential of automation" and predicts job impact.
Re: Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds
#6If you actually read the article, it's not necessarily losing their jobs (emphasis mine). IMO it is irresponsible of the website to misrepresent the study so radically. > The study, which focused on generative AI, determined that 9.6% of jobs held by females in high-income countries are poised for transformation, compared to 3.5% of those held by men. It added that most roles would likely be radically changed instead…
> Don't be fooled by media bias & misinformation.
Don't be fooled indeed.
Re: Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds
#7Seems like the obvious reason is because women are disproportionately more likely to take "email jobs" than jobs that require hard skills, and email jobs are easier to replace with AI (mostly because they aren't really providing much real value and probably could have been safely eliminated even without AI). You even see this trend in fields that are harder, with women who become doctors far more likely to become pediatricians, general practice family doctors, etc. as opposed to oncologists or surgeons. Or women who go into software dev being far more likely to work on frontend as opposed to, say, writing netcode or plumbing the depths of database performance.
Re: Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds
#8Seems like the obvious reason is because women are disproportionately more likely to take "email jobs" than jobs that require hard skills, and email jobs are easier to replace with AI (mostly because they aren't really providing much real value and probably could have been safely eliminated even without AI). You even see this trend in fields that are harder, with women who become doctors far more likely to become ped…
> or plumbing
Or plumbing in general, like pipes and water, which AI (still?) cannot do.
Re: Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds
#9Ask the average woman in the US, Europe and even Asia if they cared about any plight that men might go through, like losing their jobs in some fashion. Most would shrug and move on. Why are men expected to show so much empathy for women they don’t even personally know? These days, men and women compete for the same jobs, degrees, and apartments. So why should men keep putting women first?
Re: Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds
#10If you actually read the article, it's not necessarily losing their jobs (emphasis mine). IMO it is irresponsible of the website to misrepresent the study so radically. > The study, which focused on generative AI, determined that 9.6% of jobs held by females in high-income countries are poised for transformation, compared to 3.5% of those held by men. It added that most roles would likely be radically changed instead…
The microcomputer and internet significantly changed a lot of "women's work" in the twentieth century too, much of it for the better as people who started out simply neatly writing down what the decision makers said ended up using newfangled tools called spreadsheets to manage complex tasks and gaining the responsibility of responding to certain types of communication in real time.