A recent study has predicted the future of the women’s working world. The study, led by Alex English and published on WBE, found that artificial intelligence will take more jobs from women than men in the UK. 

“The UK’s workforce is statistically more at risk of losing their job to a robot than that of the US”, writes English. “Women in the UK are actually at greater risk of robotisation than men, a fact that bucks the global trend”, he notes. Artificial Intelligence will also impact industries traditionally occupied by a female workforce. “[In] the fashion industry, we know a large proportion of roles here are in manufacture”, English told i-D. “These sorts of roles [...] have an extremely high probability of automation [...] the outlook is perhaps not good for many people in this sector”.  

But hope is not lost for future women in the UK. “Women are more likely to be worse affected by losing their tasks and jobs to automation in the short term”, tech activist Tabitha Goldstaub told i-D. “But long term this will level out as long as women are encouraged to leverage AI rather than having tech rule them”. As i-D notes, “the next frontier for the feminist fight is already being built”.