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Gender Pension Gap

Jobs affected by AI

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Relationship Recession

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Who works part-time?

In part, this can be explained by lower wages in jobs more often done by women. But not fully. The other factor is part-time work.

Why's that?

Pension gap in the EU

In the EU, on average, women receive

29%

less than men

Who gives informal care?

An important reason why part-time employment is much more common with women is that women give more informal care.Informal care is unpaid care for relatives, spouses, or friends.

women

70%

Those who give informal care have a higher risk of old age poverty.

Now what?

Read about the "Employment Dilemma"

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... some factors lower the risk of automation: human contact, decision-making, dexterity.Meanwhile, highly repetitive tasks can increase it.

Learn more?

...then assess a general risk of automation for each level, based on some economic assumptions.

Lower risk

Lower risk

Higher risk

New machinery and artificial intelligence will change certain jobs. Which ones?

Lower-skilled

e.g. housekeepers, delivery, farm work, construction

No prior training or extensive experience required

Medium-skilled

e.g. travel agents, bank clerks, graphic designers, security

Upper or post-secondary education, experience helps

e.g. doctors, NGO directors, engineers, researchers, lawyers

Higher-skilled

Tertiary education. High expertise required

To find out, one can first categorise by skill level...

1. High-skill jobs are impractical to automate as they require specialised knowledge. 2. To automate low-skill tasks is often not cost-effective. 3. So Medium-skill jobs are most at risk.

But ...!

Read"How robots will change our jobs"

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... while of those with basic education, half are single - with a large gender disparity.

Of the young Finnish people with higher education, about a quarter was single, with a slight gender disparity, ...

women men

Now what?

One can see from this that resources correlate with partnership. Young men with a basic education level were most likely to be single.

In 2024, Finnish researchers asked people aged between 18 and 45 about their relationship status. Here's what they noticed.

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The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? by Frey, Carl Benedikt and Michael A. Osborne, 2017 (Technological Forecasting and Social Change)

Part-time employment rate, age-group 20-64, percentage of total employment, 2023 (Eurostat)

npaid informal carers aged 50–64, estimate based on results from Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (WHO)

Gender pension gap by age group, 2019, 65 years or over (Eurostat)

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Gender pension gap by age group, 2019, 65 years or over (Eurostat)

Part-time employment rate, age-group 20-64, percentage of total employment, 2023 (Eurostat)

Unpaid informal carers aged 50–64, estimate based on results from Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (WHO)

At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold and most frequent activity in the previous year (Eurostat)

Data Source

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All data are from the Finnish Family Barometer survey 2024, by Tiia Sorsa, Susanna Kuokkanen, Noora Lehtonen & Venla Berg

Family Barometer data have been collected since 1997, most of the data are available for research through the Finnish Social Science Data Archive.