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020 |a 9781484379769 
100 1 |a Brussevich, Mariya 
245 0 0 |a Gender, Technology, and the Future of Work  |c Mariya Brussevich, Era Dabla-Norris, Christine Kamunge, Pooja Karnane, Salma Khalid, Kalpana Kochhar 
260 |a Washington, D.C.  |b International Monetary Fund  |c 2018 
300 |a 36 pages 
651 4 |a United States 
653 |a Social discrimination & equal treatment 
653 |a Women 
653 |a Gender studies; women & girls 
653 |a Research and Development 
653 |a Labour; income economics 
653 |a Technology; general issues 
653 |a Aggregate Labor Productivity 
653 |a Skills 
653 |a Labor 
653 |a Sex discrimination 
653 |a Gender Studies 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
653 |a Occupational Choice 
653 |a Technological Change 
653 |a Human Capital 
653 |a Women''s Studies' 
653 |a Employment 
653 |a Technological Change: Choices and Consequences 
653 |a Intellectual Property Rights: General 
653 |a Gender inequality 
653 |a Economics of Gender 
653 |a Technology 
653 |a Non-labor Discrimination 
653 |a Unemployment 
653 |a Diffusion Processes 
653 |a Aggregate Human Capital 
653 |a Labor Productivity 
653 |a Automatic control engineering 
653 |a Labor Economics: General 
653 |a Innovation 
653 |a Labor Demand 
653 |a Wages 
653 |a Intergenerational Income Distribution 
653 |a Automation 
653 |a Gender 
653 |a Labor economics 
700 1 |a Dabla-Norris, Era 
700 1 |a Kamunge, Christine 
700 1 |a Karnane, Pooja 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b IMF  |a International Monetary Fund 
490 0 |a Staff Discussion Notes 
028 5 0 |a 10.5089/9781484379769.006 
856 4 0 |u https://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/006/2018/007/006.2018.issue-007-en.xml?cid=46236-com-dsp-marc  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 330 
520 |a New technologies?digitalization, artificial intelligence, and machine learning?are changing the way work gets done at an unprecedented rate. Helping people adapt to a fast-changing world of work and ameliorating its deleterious impacts will be the defining challenge of our time. What are the gender implications of this changing nature of work? How vulnerable are women’s jobs to risk of displacement by technology? What policies are needed to ensure that technological change supports a closing, and not a widening, of gender gaps? This SDN finds that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men across all sectors and occupations?tasks that are most prone to automation. Given the current state of technology, we estimate that 26 million female jobs in 30 countries (28 OECD member countries, Cyprus, and Singapore) are at a high risk of being displaced by technology (i.e., facing higher than 70 percent likelihood of being automated) within the next two decades. Female workers face a higher risk of automation compared to male workers (11 percent of the female workforce, relative to 9 percent of the male workforce), albeit with significant heterogeneity across sectors and countries. Less well-educated and older female workers (aged 40 and above), as well as those in low-skill clerical, service, and sales positions are disproportionately exposed to automation. Extrapolating our results, we find that around 180 million female jobs are at high risk of being displaced globally. Policies are needed to endow women with required skills; close gender gaps in leadership positions; bridge digital gender divide (as ongoing digital transformation could confer greater flexibility in work, benefiting women); ease transitions for older and low-skilled female workers