Being a Woman in the Age of AI

Being a Woman in the Age of AI examines artificial intelligence and digital transformation through women’s time, care responsibilities, work, learning, economic security, and institutional power. Through the Five Returns framework-time, knowledge, security, income, and opportunity-the book asks whether technology genuinely reduces burdens, expands capability, and creates opportunities that remain under women’s meaningful control. Moving across unpaid work, digital access, education, employment, rural opportunity, small business, online work, and financial independence, it combines interdisciplinary analysis with a critical but non-technophobic perspective. The book argues that technological progress should be judged not only by what systems can do, but by what they return to women and by who remains responsible when benefits, risks, and burdens are distributed unequally.