Kuala Lumpur

Global Skills Forum 2025 - The role of private sector in skills development: Driving innovation and impact 

Geneva

Are doctors more effective when they use AI? Results from an experiment in Indonesia, Kenya and the Netherlands

AI for Good

Are AI jobs driving up demand for STEM education? Yes, but not for women.

ILO at the Second World Summit for Social Development 2025

Integrating decent jobs and social protection for social development: Country-led solutions

Switzerland

This event is organized as part of ITU's <a href="https://aiforgood.itu.int/">AI for Good Series</a>.This seminar presents new evidence on how AI adoption in U.S. labour markets is shaping demand for STEM education. The study highlights rising overall demand, a widening gender gap, and the moderating role of female faculty representation.Paper abstract:&nbsp;This study combines data on degrees awarded across U.S. colleges and universities with data on online job vacancies to examine the impact of AI penetration in local labour markets on the demand for STEM education. The findings show that between 2014 and 2022, AI increased overall demand for STEM education across all racial groups. However, the study also reveals that AI widened the gender gap in STEM, as it drove greater demand and degree growth in male-dominated fields such as engineering, compared to fields with a higher share of female students, such as health sciences. Notably, the analysis finds that in institutions with a higher proportion of female faculty, the impact of AI on the STEM gender gap was mitigated

The Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions and its multistakeholder engagement mechanism (M-GA) place social development at the heart of economic development and ecological, demographic and digital transitions. They promote access to social protection, decent jobs, and skill opportunities, to ensure that these important transformations are just for different populations.&nbsp;&nbsp; The event will showcase how combined investments in employment, skills and social protection policies and programs can help achieve the three core objectives of social development (poverty eradication, full and productive employment and decent work for all, and social integration). It will demonstrate how these investments can result in strong social and economic outcomes. In particular, the event will highlight how the Global Accelerator and the M-GA serve as practical vehicles for supporting the implementation of the WSSD2 political declaration.

ILO Headquarters

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