Women hold about 31% of AI jobs at director level or above, and only one in eight technical C-suite seats at AI companies against roughly a quarter of C-suite seats workforce-wide, according to LinkedIn’s Economic Graph Research Institute. The shortfall starts at the hiring stage, since women made up 26% of people hired into AI jobs in 2025 against 50% of hires into non-AI jobs, and they fill 29% of entry-level AI positions while the corporate entry level overall is close to an even split. Women are instead more likely to land in data annotation and other lower-paid AI work, some of which is itself exposed to automation. AI jobs pay more than double what other jobs pay on average and have roughly doubled in number, so the gap is keeping women out of the best-paid work on the market.
