A SURVEY conducted by strategy consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) among 6,500 employees working in technology companies based in five countries (United States, United Kingdom, Japan, India and Germany) reported that more women in senior high-tech positions are using artificial intelligence (AI) at work than their male counterparts.
According to the survey, 75 per cent of them use generative AI on the job, reported 'Fast Company' in relaying the findings of the BCG study. In comparison, only 61 per cent of their male colleagues in senior high-tech roles use this technology in the workplace.
However, this phenomenon only concerns women in senior tech positions. Junior women in tech functions (63 per cent) don't make as much use of generative AI tools. Conversely, men in junior positions in tech are more likely to use generative AI than their male superiors.
Generally speaking, women who don't work in tech are still few and far between when it comes to using AI in their day-to-day professional lives. Yet they would do well to do so.
Consulting firm McKinsey estimated in a report last year that women were 1.5 times more likely than men to have to change jobs as a result of the automation of tasks linked to the development of AI.
But this is not inevitable. While generative AI has the potential to partially automate — or even eliminate — various jobs, it also offers enormous opportunities for job creation.
So it's vital that women learn how to use these tools effectively, so that they don't lose out in the AI revolution, whether they work in tech or not.
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