Women Are More Susceptible to Job Automation
In the first study to investigate the labor impact of automation separately for men and women in the United States, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research finds that women, particularly Hispanic women, are at greater risk of losing their jobs to automation. Women hold 58 percent of the jobs that are likely to be automated, because they are overrepresented in easily-disrupted occupations like cashiers, office clerks and administrative assistants. About one-third of Hispanic women work in such high-risk occupations.