{"id":42526,"date":"2025-05-20T04:39:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42526"},"modified":"2025-05-20T04:39:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:39:47","slug":"ai-poses-a-bigger-threat-to-womens-work-than-mens-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42526","title":{"rendered":"AI poses a bigger threat to women\u2019s work, than men&#8217;s, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jobs traditionally done by women are more vulnerable to the impact of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/artificial-intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a>&nbsp;than those done by men, especially in high-income countries, a report by the United Nations\u2019 International Labour Organization showed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It found 9.6% of traditionally female jobs were set to be transformed compared with 3.5% of those carried out by men as AI increasingly takes on administrative tasks and transforms clerical jobs, such as secretarial work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Human involvement will still be required for many tasks \u2014 and roles are more likely to be radically changed rather than eliminated, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jobs in the media, software and finance-related roles are also at the forefront of change as generative AI expands its learning abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe stress that such exposure does not imply the immediate automation of an entire occupation, but rather the potential for a large share of its current tasks to be performed using this technology,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It called on governments and employers\u2019 and workers\u2019 organizations to think about how AI can be used to enhance productivity and job quality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/ai-artificial-intelligence-threat-women-work-labour-organization-rcna207871\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jobs traditionally done by women are more vulnerable to the impact of&nbsp;artificial intelligence&nbsp;than those done by men, especially in high-income countries, a report by the United Nations\u2019 International Labour Organization showed on Tuesday. It found 9.6% of traditionally female jobs were set to be transformed compared with 3.5% of those carried out by men as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":42527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5783],"tags":[4149,7494,1402,1305,2099],"class_list":["post-42526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-impact","tag-men","tag-women","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42528,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42526\/revisions\/42528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}