Ada Lovelace Day - and even the female bots are being underpaid compared to the male ones? What would Ada make of it all?
It’s Ada Lovelace Day today, the annual celebration/commiseration of the role and representation of woman in the tech sector. As ever, I find myself asking, what would Ada make of the current landscape? And once again, the answer comes back all too loud and clear - not very much I imagine.
Since the last Ada Lovelace Day, women have made up only about a quarter of new hires in AI roles, compared with 50% of new hires in non-AI roles, according to an August 2026 study from the Economic Graph Research Institute in association with LinkedIn. In executive roles, that number drops to just 13% across 27 countries.
The study flags up what it calls “The Triple Penalty” of lower representation in leadership roles, with women about 15 percentage points behind men in C-Suite roles; AI jobs, with women about 10 percentage points behind; and AI companies, where the...
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