The age of automation on 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, between 40 and 160 million women worldwide may have to switch from positions, often to highly skilled jobs. To cope with these disorders, both women and men need to be skilled, mobile and technological, but women face major obstacles and will need specialised support to advance in industry.
Global McKinsey Institute, The future of women at work: Transitions in the era ofautomation believe that if women make the necessary transitions, they could be more productive and better paid. Otherwise, they may face increasing wage gaps or be further neglected if progress towards gender equality is already slow.
This research explores possible models of ‘job losses’, ‘jobs created’ and ‘changed jobs’ among women, exploring scenarios for how current gender models of the global workforce could lead to trends of automation and job creation by 2030.
Research explores 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.