Article doesn’t really say, but I wonder if this is due to women (typically) having more admin/logical based roles whereas men have more involvement in physical based tasks. It’s much easier to replace a pen pusher then someone wielding a hammer as you need robots that can move around and whatnot to replace those physical roles.
To add to the confusion when you click on the link to the report, it talks about generative AI, so it is not talking about AI as a whole. One of the biggest categories of jobs that will disappear is driving jobs and delivery jobs, thanks to self-driving tech. I’m guessing that these jobs are overwhelmingly male dominated.
Right? Like you can’t really just lump all employment and all genders I to one bucket. As much as it upsets people, things are different and need to be treated as such
In fairness to them, if you are a government or economic body, trying to plan for these events, then you do need to get granular and look at things from specifics like demographics, age groups, gender and so on.