The age of automation in the horizon offers new opportunities and progress, but women face the new challenges posed by this new phase, together with long-term challenges. By 2030, 40 to 160 million women around the world may need to move from roles, often to higher-skilled positions. In order to withstand these unrest, both women and men need to be skilled, mobile and technical, but women face huge barriers and will need specialised support to advance industry.
This report by McKinsey Global Institute, The future of women at work: Transitions at the age of automationconsider that women could be on the road to more productive and better paid work if they were to make these necessary transitions. If not, they could face growing wage gaps or be further neglected if progress towards gender equality is already slow.
This research explores possible patterns of ‘jobs lost’, ‘jobs acquired’ and ‘changed jobs’ for women, by exploring scenarios of how trends in automation and job creation could emerge by 2030, given the current gender patterns of the workforce worldwide.
The research examines six advanced economies (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) and four emerging economies (China, India, Mexico and South Africa), accounting for around half of the world’s population and around 60 % of global GDP in total.
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