On 29–30 June 2026, the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean launched the report on artificial intelligence (AI) and gender equality entitled "Blocking is NOT Enough," while opening an important conversation on AI-enabled online violence and technology-facilitated gender-based violence.
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.
Why are women 25% less likely to use artificial intelligence tools than men? New research debunks the notion that the gender gap is primarily due to women’s lack of AI skills, interest or access. Women’s hesitancy to use AI is instead a rational response to a competency penalty that women face when using AI in the workplace.
As artificial intelligence reshapes how people work, communicate and access information, UN Women warned on Monday that the technology is reproducing old gender stereotypes, which amplify online abuse and leave women out of the decisions that will define the digital future.
From customer operations and service design to governance, automation and employee experience, leaders across the community are describing growing pressure to “just do AI” — often without the organizational readiness, operational clarity or human-centered architecture required to make it successful.
It’s not easy to raise capital as a founder. Sixty-four percent of female founders still describe their gender as having held them back or as an obstacle, according to a new report from the pre-seed fund January Ventures. And yet, for the first time since this report began in 2019, men and women founders are equally as optimistic about fundraising. A longtime “gender pessimism” gap has closed.
Reshma Saujani had the attention of the room. Executives, investors and advocates packed in a Midtown Manhattan office on a Wednesday morning. This is the kind of crowd that had spent the past year losing sleep over artificial intelligence, tariffs and supply chains.
As artificial intelligence, or AI, becomes more integrated into our daily lives, a study from Harvard University suggests women are using it significantly less in the workplace than men, which may have professional consequences.
The AI revolution isn't ahead of us; it's here. But, for a technology that's been heralded as the future, it risks bringing with it problems from the past.
A two-day conference at Harvard Radcliffe Institute looked behind the hype at the intrinsic gender and racial biases in artificial intelligence and processed how to make this game changer more fair.
