The Age of Female Dominance, Brought to You by Robots

There’s a lot of speculation on how robots taking over people’s jobs could impact the economy. After all, if nearly half of American jobs are automated in the next 20 years, what will people do? And while automation does include losses of jobs, it could also change what we value when it comes to skill sets. For example, care-related work, like nursing and education, will likely remain human. Jerry Kaplan, a futurist and professor at Stanford University, thinks that automation could place a premium on the type of work that women tend to be good at, like person-to-person interaction, reading human emotion, collaboration, and creativity. In this animation from The Atlantic, he and Saadia Zahidi of the World Economic Forum explore what the future could hold for the balance of power between genders and the distribution of labor at home.<br />
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Client: The Atlantic<br />
Producer: Nadine Ajaka<br />
Direction: Andrew Embury<br />
Illustration: Loris F. Alessandria<br />
Animation: James Hazael, Jardeson Rocha, Robert Anderson, Alan Demafiles, Francesco D'Ambrosio, Andrew Embury<br />
Audio: The Atlantic