Gender Parity in the Intelligent Age 2025

LinkedIn data from 2025 suggests that most women without AI engineering skills are working in roles that are being disrupted (38.4%), while among men without AI engineering skills, this constitutes the smallest group (31.1%). Relatively fewer women are insulated from the effects of AI and just over 28% are in roles that are being augmented (Figures 5a and 5b). In comparison, workers with AI engineering skills are less likely to be in roles impacted by disruption or which are fully isolated. Among men with AI engineering skills, the vast majority (65.4%) are in augmented roles, compared to women with engineering skills where the proportion is 57.2%. About one quarter of women who have engineering skills are currently in disrupted roles yet should have a relatively easier path transitioning to augmented roles compared to the 38.4% of women without AI engineering skills in disrupted roles. Given this skill and AI impact mix, a relatively higher number of women will need to transition from disrupted roles and relatively fewer currently have the skills to do so. Businesses and economies chasing GenAI-related growth will be best served by casting a wide, and robust talent net – one that nurtures female talent and develops its potential, from entry-level and all the way into leadership. The workforce however is unlikely to upskill and reach for emerging GenAI- related opportunities without a compelling vision for the future of work. As GenAI is increasingly integrated into workplaces, worker’s attitudes reveal that gender gaps shape workers’ appetites to engage with this shift at scale. PwC data featured in the Global Gender Gap Report 2024 highlighted that only 54% of women, compared to 61% of men, expected significant changes in the skills required for their jobs over the next five years. Women also reported a less clear understanding of how these shifts will affect their roles (62% of women versus 68% of men), signalling a potential gap in preparedness for the AI-driven economy or the fact that women are disproportionately filling roles which have little exposure to AI. This finding echoes other insights from studies that suggest women are somewhat less likely to use AI than men.5 However, the rapid pace of the shift means attitudes are also changing fast. Insights from LinkedIn’s Workforce Confidence Index reveal that, between 2023 and 2024, men’s and women’s attitudes towards GenAI evolved rapidly (Figure 6). A higher share of both men and women reported that the role of GenAI had increased in their workplaces in 2024, compared to 2023. While men were more likely than women to report that GenAI skills would help their career progression and reported a higher use of GenAI than women, the proportion of both men and women recognizing the importance of AI skills and reporting AI use at work have increased between 2023 and 2024. Where beliefs diverged over time were in the perceived importance of soft skills and whether they doubted that GenAI would 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Augmented by GenAI Disrupted by GenAI Insulated from GenAIMen Women Source LinkedIn Economic Graph Research Institute, 2023.Gender composition by GenAI process FIGURE 4 Share of LinkedIn members in the US (%) Gender Parity in the Intelligent Age 10