[HideousKojima]

Seems like the obvious reason is because women are disproportionately more likely to take "email jobs" than jobs that require hard skills, and email jobs are easier to replace with AI (mostly because they aren't really providing much real value and probably could have been safely eliminated even without AI). You even see this trend in fields that are harder, with women who become doctors far more likely to become pediatricians, general practice family doctors, etc. as opposed to oncologists or surgeons. Or women who go into software dev being far more likely to work on frontend as opposed to, say, writing netcode or plumbing the depths of database performance.

[ajsnigrutin]

> or plumbing

Or plumbing in general, like pipes and water, which AI (still?) cannot do.

[zb3]

This would certainly require something beyond just software, like AI-powered humanoid robots, and I don't even know what's the current progress on that.. are we closer to that on the software or the hardware side?

[cellis]

I recently worked with a friend on an electrical rewiring job. There’s no way robots as they’re currently being developed have anywhere near the dexterity and vision + motor skills required to do electrical work in an average home built for humans up until probably 2030…and I don’t think they ever will. I’m willing to make a long bet on that. What I would bet on is new structures being built that are “robot ready” and that more and more of the housing stock is built like that, but given the pace of coding ( building code updates ) I don’t see that happening for another 20 years.