G20 Policy Brief - Automation, Automation, Automation: preparing women for the future of work

Both the future of work and gender equality have pride of place on the 2018 G20 summit agenda, giving the group a prime opportunity to address these previously neglected issues. As automation puts an ever-growing number of jobs at risk, members must work to create more educational opportunities so that women are able to ‘upskill’ or ‘re-skill’ in order to participate in a labour market dominated by technology. Women are consistently underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), from their childhood experiences in education systems, through to their representation in high-flying leadership positions. The 2018 Buenos Aires Summit made a multitude of commitments that promote strategies to achieve gender equality in the labour market, but the ambiguous, immeasurable nature of these commitments calls into question just how successful the G20 will be.

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