Is Technology Widening the Gender Gap? : Automation and the Future of Female Employment /

Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation level...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brussevich, Mariya
Other Authors: Dabla-Norris, Era, Khalid, Salma
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/091
Online Access:Full text available on IMF