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

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. What would remain, they argued, would be the human skills that machines can’t replicate: caregiving, teaching, coaching, mentoring, relationship-building. That sounds, at first glance, like a victory for women. After all, women dominate many of those professions.…