TORONTO — Canada has the globe’s fifth largest artificial intelligence workforce, but is still far from closing the gender gap in the sector, according to new rankings from the World Economic Forum.
The international organization used LinkedIn data to find the size of Canada’s AI workforce is lagging behind the U.S., India, Germany and Switzerland, but beating dozens of countries including France, Spain, Singapore and Sweden.
However, the Forum found as part of its annual rankings on gender disparities that women only make up 24 per cent of Canada’s AI workforce, and 22 per cent of the world’s AI workforce.
The Forum said …read more
Source: National Newswatch
