Women Hold Roughly 1 in 4 New AI Roles — and 13% of AI-Company Executive Seats
Women's share of AI roles sits about 10 percentage points below their share of non-AI roles — 26% of new AI hires in 2025 versus roughly half of non-AI hires. The gap widens with seniority: 20% of Head of AI roles, 26% of Director of AI, and 13% of executive leadership at AI companies. A typical LinkedIn AI posting advertises ~$177k against ~$80k for non-AI roles.
Why it matters
Read at HR Dive Capability builders running AI upskilling should treat participation equity as a design constraint, not a reporting metric — the compounding wage premium means today's access gap becomes tomorrow's leadership pipeline gap.
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