Tor Constantino is a communications professional with 25 years experience as a former journalist and corporate communications executive with an MBA degree. His career has spanned a wide range of technological industries including telecommunications, cloud-based SaaS applications, Big Data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and MedTech.
for years. Unfortunately, within the AI workforce, the digital divide between the genders has widened as 71% of the AI-skilled workers are men and 29% women — representing a 42 percentage point spread in the gender gap.
When it comes to AI skilling, women are not only 5% less likely to be offered AI skilling opportunities, but they also feel less confident than men that the training they have received has adequately prepared them to utilize the technology in their careers.It’s ‘Unsustainable’—Tesla CEO Elon Musk Issues Serious U.S. ‘Bankruptcy’ Warning As Bitcoin And Dogecoin Fuel $3 Trillion Price Boom
“First, companies need to actively invest in upskilling their female employees specifically in AI — not just making training available, but incentivizing and requiring it. It’s critical to future-proof your workforce. Finding and hiring more women in AI as speakers and consultants for your team is a great way to give your female employees role models to look up to,” she stated.
Bornet agreed on the need for stronger, intentional AI engagement for women in the workplace — adding that interest in AI needs to be cultivated in young girls much earlier in their academic careers. “For institutions, we need to stop treating AI as a ‘tech thing’ and start treating it as a ‘future of work thing.’ This means integrating AI training across all disciplines, not just computer science,” she wrote.
The experts I heard from agreed that these data were better than the other results in the report but more work needs to be done.
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