The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind

Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs but are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruption

There's a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, high-paying jobs in artificial intelligence, or get trapped in the permanent underclass", a phrase describing the fate of those who won't have upward mobility in the age of AI.

The phrase usually describes a future in which AI automates human jobs. But for women in tech, it's starting to look like the present.