Women may face greater AI job-loss risk, research suggests

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNew research suggests women may face a greater risk from AI job losses, and the history of the telephone switchboard is the example economists keep reaching for.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe switchboard. That's the thing with the cables and the headset.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt was once one of the most common jobs for American women.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAn estimated seventy-five thousand operator jobs vanished in the decades after the automatic switch was popularized, according to CNBC.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSeventy-five thousand?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd researchers found that those who lost the work were far more likely to never find other work, or to take lower-paying jobs.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorToday, the International Labour Organization says nearly one in ten women in high-income countries works in the occupations at highest risk from AI.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorClerical work, then. So the people who answered the phones are now the people who answer the emails the software is going to answer.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWomen hold about ninety percent of secretary and clerical jobs, says one policy researcher. Some of us noticed this before the software did.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRex, someone on your side of the building has to be hiring.