Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming workplaces across the globe, enhancing productivity and reshaping tasks in many occupations. But its effects are not gender neutral. A new report by the International Labour Organization finds that women are more exposed than men to the risks linked to this technology.

In this episode of the ILO Future of Work podcast,
Anam Butt, technical specialist on gender equality and
non-discrimination at the ILO and co-author of the report, explores why women are overrepresented in jobs where tasks can be automated, why they remain underrepresented in AI and STEM occupations, and how AI systems can reproduce existing biases and stereotypes.

She also discusses how policymakers can ensure that digital transformation advances, rather than undermines, gender equality at work.