AI in the Workplace: What it Means to the Gender Wage Gap in 2019

As we saw in Minding the Gender Gap, women still lag far behind men in the tech field, both in terms of representations (which hovers around 25% in the United States), and in terms of pay, where the gap between men and women is close to 12%. While figures for pay disparity in tech don't focus on specialists in artificial intelligence (AI), female representation there is even lower. According to the report, Discriminating Systems: Gender, Race, and Power, conferences women make up only 18% of the represented authors at AI conferences and less than 20% of AI professors. They fare even worse in corporations where they make up only 15% of research staff positions at Facebook and a mere 10% at Google. Join nearly 200,000 subscribers who receive actionable tech insights from Techopedia.