Female-Dominated Careers Among Most Exposed to AI Disruption
22nd January 2026
Gee, I wonder why.
But, the researchers found, there are roughly 6.1 million workers who “face both high exposure to LLMs and low adaptive capacity to manage a job transition.”
Paper-pushers who don’t actually make things that people need, and who can’t do that kind of work (“administrators”).
“Many of these workers occupy administrative and clerical jobs where savings are modest, workers’ skill transferability is limited, and reemployment prospects are narrower.”
This, in turn, means that they are more likely to face longer job searches, less chance of actually finding new employment, and “more significant relative earnings losses compared to other workers.”
And, if you haven’t guessed it, “Of these workers, 86 percent are women.”
Called it.