AI has an unexpected side effect: It could make high-paying jobs less hostile to women

The mechanism involves a concept economists call ‘greedy jobs.’

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The conversation about AI and work revolves mostly around jobs being destroyed or new ones emerging, around the workers benefiting and those likely to be left behind. All these debates are legitimate. But there are so many other aspects and consequences that are rarely addressed. 

For one, AI has a women problem—with more of them opting out. The data that trains the technology reflects centuries of male-dominated knowledge production, erasing women’s experiences and perspectives from the models that are now reshaping how we work. The jobs it is eliminating fastest are disproportionately held by women: administrative roles, data processing, customer service, the vast army of routine cognitive work that the female workforce has long depended on. And the people building these........

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