Artificial Intelligence and gender

Gillian Youngs

Chapter 41 in Handbook on Gender in World Politics, 2026, pp 274-279 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments in the early decades of the 21st century appeared to signal a significant next stage in the sociotechnical transformations linked to automation central to the industrial and digital revolutions. Attention to the new facets of these forces for change tended to dominate and draw interest away from the long view of political economy that emphasizes continuity as well as discontinuity. This latter historical perspective in its awareness of entrenched forms of structural power was vital to analysis of how AI transformations would impact on intersecting areas of inequality including gender. The historically-embedded male domination of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) and its gendered distortions of envisioning and shaping the modern world were central to this picture. Analysis of human/machine interfaces at the heart of AI transformations was restricted through masculinist abstractions of the concept of ‘human’, highlighting the pivotal role of feminist insights in this area.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Automation; Digital Economy; STEM; ICTs; Industrial Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781803923765
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