Why AI is burning women out

Every employee is expected to adopt AI. But women are doing so while carrying a disproportionate share of invisible labor that’s widening the technology gap.

Women spend twice as many hours per week as men on childcare and household work combined, and it starts before the alarm stops buzzing. A typical morning for me looks like waking the kids, discovering my son’s Spirit Week shirt still in the hamper, starting laundry, making breakfast I then don’t eat, realizing we’re out of cereal and adding it to the grocery list, and reminding myself to order a birthday gift, all while watching the clock for the 7:15 a.m. bus. Some version of this plays out for women everywhere, every morning, before they get to their desks.