Automation lifts companies, but do women@work gain?
The United Nations’ Gender Snapshot 2025 warns that women’s jobs are significantly more at risk of automation than men’s, with 27.6% of women’s roles worldwide potentially displaced compared to 21.1% of men’s.
Automation may be the next phase of workplace transformation, but for women, it’s shaping up to be a bigger threat than opportunity, at least for now.
The United Nations’ Gender Snapshot 2025 warns that women’s jobs are significantly more at risk of automation than men’s, with 27.6% of women’s roles worldwide potentially displaced compared to 21.1% of men’s.
Tanya Pandey breaks down why this risk is more pronounced in India, where women form barely a quarter of the white-collar workforce and are concentrated in those sectors that are most exposed to AI and automation.
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