Filipina workers at high risk in GenAI shift

Women in the Philippines are among those most exposed to workplace changes brought by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), reflecting the concentration of female workers in roles vulnerable to automation, according to a report released by the Geneva -based International Labor Organization (ILO) last week.

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In its March 5 research brief titled “Gen AI, occupational segregation and gender equality in the world of work,” ILO said women are more exposed to GenAI than men in 88 percent of countries analyzed, with several economies— including the Philippines— seeing more than 40 percent of women’s employment exposed to the technology.

The study found that female-dominated occupations are almost twice as likely to be exposed to GenAI compared with male-dominated ones. About 29 percent of female-dominated jobs face exposure to the technology, versus 16 percent of male-dominated occupations, while 16 percent of women-dominated roles fall into the highest automation-risk categories, compared with only three percent for men-dominated jobs.