The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:00:29 GMT

Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs but are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruptionThere’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, high-paying jobs in artificial intelligence, or get trapped in the “permanent underclass”, a phrase describing the fate of those who won’t have upward mobility in the age of AI.The phrase usually describes a future in which AI automates human jobs. But for women in tech, it’s starting to look like the present. Continue reading...

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