Women account for just 30 per cent of AI professionals worldwide and hold only 16 per cent of AI research roles, UN Women said on Tuesday, calling for greater female participation in building artificial intelligence tools to better reflect women’s needs in health, finance, climate resilience, and safety.
Speaking at the launch of the AI Casebook on Gender and Agriculture at India AI Summit here, UN Women Regional Director for Asia Pacific Christine Arab said the underrepresentation of women in AI development was creating systemic bias in the technology.
Arab noted that a “persistent design gap” remains globally, warning that fewer women building AI systems means fewer products that reflect women’s realities.
“When women are missing from design tables, the test labs, the term sheets — bias doesn’t emerge by accident. It becomes the default,” she said.
Arab praised India for its efforts to address the gender gap in AI, saying the country “stands among the very few globally who are .​Women account for just 30 per cent of AI professionals worldwide and hold only 16 per cent of AI research roles, UN Women said on Tuesday, calling for greater female participation in building artificial intelligence tools to better reflect women’s needs in health, finance, climate resilience, and safety.
Speaking at the launch of the AI Casebook on Gender and Agriculture at India AI Summit here, UN Women Regional Director for Asia Pacific Christine Arab said the underrepresentation of women in AI development was creating systemic bias in the technology.
Arab noted that a “persistent design gap” remains globally, warning that fewer women building AI systems means fewer products that reflect women’s realities.
“When women are missing from design tables, the test labs, the term sheets — bias doesn’t emerge by accident. It becomes the default,” she said.
Arab praised India for its efforts to address the gender gap in AI, saying the country “stands among the very few globally who are . ​Latest News [ SOBAN NEWS: International and National ]
