Workers: Women in the Labor Market in the Age of Digital Transformation

The pandemic has made the difficulties experienced by women in the labor market extremely clear. The strength needed to cope with professional duties in a situation of a huge burden of parenting and household responsibilities is behind the choice of the term "work titans" as the title of this report. Our analysis shows that a titanic effort was necessary to cope with the challenges created by the pandemic. The report focuses on an attempt to diagnose the situation of women in the face of the digital transformation of the labor market. Automation creates threats to many professions and is indicated as a cause of polarization of the labor market: while people with digital competences will find their place in the labor market of the future, those without them may fall into the trap of precarious work or have trouble finding employment. The questions we ask in the report concern the extent to which Polish women are aware of the changes taking place? To what extent are they ready to acquire new, digital competences? Has the pandemic and the related intensification of the development of the digital industry affected women's attitudes towards acquiring competences of the future?