report by Statistics Canada finds women are significantly more likely than men to have their jobs transformed by automation.Overall, 44 per cent of adult female workers face a 50 per cent or greater probability of experiencing some kind of job disruption tied to the adoption of technology like robots and algorithms.
That compares to less than 35 per cent of male workers, according to Marc Frenette and Kristyn Frank at Statistics Canada.Women have been hit especially hard during the first wave of layoffs triggered by the novel coronavirus pandemic, with female workers more likely to be employed in the service-sector industries that were ravaged by government-mandated shut-downs.