As the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) sweep across the labour force, it’s understandable for workers to be concerned about which jobs are most at risk of being replaced by technology.
Women make up the majority of workers in the care sector where human interactions matter most – child care, nursing and aged care. So, policymakers might reasonably presume that women’s jobs are largely shielded from the impacts of AI.
But our analysis of recent data from government agency Jobs and Skills Australia shows that it’s actually female-concentrated segments of the workforce that are most exposed to AI-fuelled automation.
Which jobs are most at risk?
The agency calculated an “automation exposure score” for every occupation in the workforce, measuring the potential for a worker’s tasks to be done by AI technologies.
