AI may finally make ‘women’s work’ valuable. But will women benefit?

As AI makes human connection more valuable, caregiving and relationship-based jobs could become the economy’s most sought-after work. History suggests the women who built those professions may not be the biggest winners.

For years, economists have predicted that artificial intelligence would hollow out the labor market. Machines would write the code, analyze the contracts, draft the emails, and automate the work that once defined white-collar status.