The article discusses the increasing decline in women's representation in top-level management, with women accounting for only 31 percent of VP-level roles and above, despite making up 44 percent of the global workforce. Despite controlling for various factors, women are paid less than men for the same work. AI was supposed to help address this issue, promising to widen access to expertise and eliminate bias in decision-making. However, this could be threatened by the increasing prominence of AI technology. Recent research by Anthropic found that workers in the most AI-exposed jobs are 16 percentage points more likely to be female. Women also adopt generative AI tools at a lower rate than men.