WOMEN'S WORK AND DIGITALIZATION

Abstract

Digitalization has produced and will continue to produce unprecedented transformations in demand for work skills, forms of business and business organization, employment and unemployment and unemployment. The substitution and polarization of employment can be one of the consequences of automation, with the risk of exclusion or decrease towards lower working conditions and low quality jobs of average and routine jobs, and growth of quality jobs, high and scientifically qualified, also replaced or supplemented by robotics and artificial intelligence. The presence of women is low in these skills and technologies. Substitution and polarization of employment can be one of its undesirable consequences, with the risk of exclusion or decline towards lower working conditions and low-quality jobs, qualification and remuneration of average and routine jobs, and growth of quality, highly qualified jobs, also replaced or complemented by robotics and artificial intelligence. The successive waves of digitization, in unstoppable development, threaten to widen gender inequality due to digital gaps, the occupational change gap and the intensification of traditional gaps. There is a need for policies of real equality in education, investment in human capital and lifelong training of working people in order to obtain the skills required by technological and climate change, support for mobility at work and job transitions, care infrastructure, co-responsible and equal reconciliation of work and family life, and empowering women at work transformed into the digital age.