Top 10 female-dominated jobs at greatest threat of being lost to AI: Nurses, teachers, and receptionists at risk
The threat of artificial intelligence taking human jobs has been looming overhead for the better part of this century - but which Aussie industries will be hit hardest?
Among those affected are around 800,000 women workers, according to new data from global workforce learning company Pearson.
Among the top female-dominated industries likely to be impacted by the adoption of AI over the next 10 years, nurses, teachers and receptionists are all in the firing line.
Read on to find out which positions are most threatened by new technology.
10. Home health aides
Home health aides provide basic care in the home to those unable to care for themselves, including people with disabilities and elderly people.
Around 57 per cent of the occupation is comprised of female workers, and 13.5 per cent of total workers are expected to be impacted by AI in the next 10 years.
That's around 30,475 female workers expected to be impacted.
9. Nurses
Nurses are a famously female-dominated industry, and they're forecast to be the ninth most significantly impacted by artificial intelligence.
Of the total nurse workforce in the Australia, 19.7 per cent are set to be impacted, their jobs replaced or co-opted by AI.
Given 89 per cent of nurses in Australia are women, this is bad news for 35,595 female workers.
8. Highschool teachers
The teaching profession is forecast to face significant pressure from AI in the next 10 years, according to Pearson.
Artificial intelligence will affect the jobs of 29 per cent of highschool teachers, 61 per cent of which are women, by 2030.
6. Office Clerks
Office clerks - those who type, file, fill out forms, and other duties - will see nearly half their workforce (48.2 per cent) impacted by AI in the next 10 years.
That's 130,588 female workers whose jobs will be replaced or co-opted by AI, the second largest number on this list.
3. Cashiers
Cashiers are a 72 per cent female workforce, and around 60 per cent of them, or 51,134 women, will have their jobs impacted by artificial intelligence in the next 10 years.
2. Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
Around 86 per cent of bookkeepers, accountants and auditing clerks are women.
By 2030, 62.5 per cent of the total workforce will be impacted by AI, or 117,745 women.
1. Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Medical secretaries and administrative assistants have the largest percentage of women in their workforce on this list - 95 per cent.
Incidentally, they also have the largest AI impact in the next 10 years, or 65.6 per cent of the workforce.
That's 55,089 women's jobs that will be replaced or co-opted by new technology.
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