LinkedIn data shows that women accounted for just over a quarter of new AI hires in the U.S. last year, significantly lower than the approximately 50% of women in non-AI new hires.

In AI companies across 27 countries, women hold only 13% of executive-level AI positions; among new hires for "AI leaders," women make up 20%, and for "AI directors," they account for 26%.

Women are also more concentrated in clerical, administrative, and repetitive information processing roles, which are more susceptible to the impact of generative AI. Related analysis indicates that about 9.6% of women's jobs fall into the highly AI-exposed category, nearly three times the corresponding ratio for men.

AI employment is not an overall net decrease but shows a divergence of "high-paying technical job expansion and pressure on some entry-level knowledge work." Data shows that the employment rate of young people aged 22 to 25 in high AI-exposure occupations is about 16% lower than their peers in low-exposure jobs.

AI-related positions are typically concentrated in model development, data engineering, MLOps, product, computing power, cybersecurity, and infrastructure, where women have lower representation in educational pathways, technical recruitment channels, and senior management positions, creating a dual gap of "being more easily replaceable and having less access to new positions."

From a market mechanism perspective, companies prioritize AI budgets for engineering, data, cloud computing, and automation roles that can directly enhance productivity, while compressing administrative and basic content processing jobs that can be replaced by tools. The beneficiaries are those with technical training, data access, and decision-making power; the ones under pressure are employees concentrated in low-bargaining, process-oriented office roles. If recruitment, training, promotion, and AI tool allocation do not change, the returns on AI investment will flow more to the existing pool of technical talent, while the exposure and opportunity gaps faced by women may widen simultaneously.

Source: Public Information