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How Many Black Women Have Lost Their Jobs Since 2025?

Black women took more than half of women’s job losses in 2025. Here’s the data through September 2026.

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The 6 Million Workers AI Could Leave Behind, and Why 86% Are Women

New Brookings research finds 6.1 million US workers face high AI exposure and low capacity to adapt, and 86% are women. Here’s what’s driving the gap and how to close it.

Introduction: Behind the “6 Million Women” Headline

You may have seen the headline: millions of women are about to lose their jobs to AI. The real story is more precise — and in some ways more important.

In January 2026, researchers at the Brookings Institution and the Centre for the Governance of AI identified 6.1 million US workers who are both highly exposed to AI and poorly equipped to bounce back if their jobs disappear. About 86% of them are women — roughly 5.2 million people.

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of the 6.1 million US workers with high AI exposure and low adaptive capacity are women, roughly 5.2 million people.

That is not a forecast of 6 million layoffs. It is a map of who would be hit hardest if AI-driven job displacement arrives. And it shows that the burden of AI job displacement could fall overwhelmingly on women in clerical and administrative roles.

This article breaks down what the research actually says, why women are so overrepresented, and what employers, policymakers and workers can do now.

What the Brookings AI Report Found

Most studies of AI and jobs stop at “exposure” — how many of a job’s tasks AI could, in theory, perform. The Brookings and GovAI team added a second question: if this worker is displaced, how well could they adapt?

To answer it, they built an adaptive capacity index from four factors:

Savings — a financial cushion to cover a job search or retraining
Age — older workers typically face longer, costlier transitions
Local labor market density — more nearby employers means more options
Skill transferability — how easily a worker’s skills carry into other roles

The headline findings:

37.1 million US workers sit in the top quarter of occupations for AI exposure.
26.5 million of them (about 70%) also have above-median adaptive capacity. Many are in professional, technical and managerial roles where AI is more likely to reshape tasks than eliminate jobs.
6.1 million workers — about 4.2% of the workforce studied — combine high exposure with low adaptive capacity. These workers tend to be older, with lower savings and narrower, job-specific skill sets.
About 86% of that vulnerable group are women.

The contrast between occupations is stark. Financial analysts scored 99% on adaptive capacity; general office clerks scored just 22%.

Highly exposed occupation	US employment	Adaptive capacity score
Office clerks, general	2.5 million	22%
Insurance sales agents	469,000	24%
Interpreters and translators	53,000	29%
Financial analysts (for comparison)	—	99%

Geography matters too. The researchers note that an office clerk in a large metro area should find re-employment easier than one in a small town with few employers.

Why Women Are Overrepresented Among Workers at Risk

The gender gap in AI automation is not about women being less capable with technology. It is about where women work.

The vulnerable 6.1 million are concentrated in clerical and administrative jobs — general office clerks above all, alongside other administrative support roles. These occupations have been dominated by women for decades. They also happen to involve exactly the kind of structured, text-heavy, rules-based tasks that generative AI handles well: drafting routine correspondence, scheduling, data entry, summarizing documents and answering standard queries.

This is a pattern researchers have flagged for years. McKinsey Global Institute projected in 2023 that US office support and customer service roles — both heavily female — could shrink by about 3.7 million and 2.0 million jobs respectively by 2030. Revelio Labs estimated that women held 71% of the US jobs most exposed to generative AI.

Occupational segregation does the rest. Many workers in these roles are older, earn modest wages with limited savings, and have built deep expertise that is valuable but tied to a specific organization or system. Those are exactly the traits that lower adaptive capacity.

The Global Picture: AI and Women in the Workforce

The gender gap is not just an American story. A May 2025 study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Poland’s National Research Institute (NASK) found:

One in four jobs worldwide (25%) is in an occupation potentially exposed to generative AI, rising to 34% in high-income countries.
Clerical jobs face the highest exposure of any occupational group.
In high-income countries, jobs in the highest-risk category make up 9.6% of women’s employment, versus 3.5% of men’s — nearly three times the share.
Globally, 4.7% of women’s jobs fall into that top-risk category, compared with 2.4% of men’s.

The ILO also points out that Europe and Central Asia show the widest gender gaps, driven by high female employment in clerical work combined with fast digital adoption.

Exposure Is Not the Same as Job Loss

It is tempting to read these numbers as a countdown to mass layoffs. The researchers themselves warn against that.

AI exposure measures how many of a job’s tasks could change — not whether the job will vanish. The Brookings and GovAI authors stress that only some AI-driven changes will result in job loss. The ILO reaches the same conclusion: almost no jobs consist entirely of tasks current AI can automate, and transformation, not replacement, is the most likely outcome for most exposed roles.

Mass replacement hasn’t shown up in the data yet, either. Ben May of Oxford Economics, in a report cited alongside the Brookings findings, said there is little evidence of firms replacing large numbers of workers with AI.

So why does the 6.1 million figure matter? Because if displacement does come — even gradually — these are the workers least able to absorb the shock. That makes them the right place to focus retraining budgets, employer planning and policy support before the disruption, not after.

How to Protect Women’s Jobs From AI: What Each Group Can Do

For employers

Audit before you automate. Map which administrative and clerical tasks AI will absorb, and which roles will change, before rolling out tools.
Redeploy, don’t just reduce. Experienced administrative staff know your processes, customers and systems. Move them into AI oversight, quality control, operations coordination or customer-experience roles.
Fund reskilling on company time. Workers with limited savings cannot afford unpaid training. Paid learning hours remove that barrier.
Track the gender impact. Include gender in workforce-planning data so AI rollouts don’t quietly widen pay and representation gaps.

For policymakers

Target support where adaptive capacity is lowest. The Brookings authors argue public workforce funding should focus on the most vulnerable workers and places, rather than spreading thin across everyone exposed to AI.
Prioritize smaller labor markets. Clerical workers in small towns face fewer alternative employers and need stronger transition support.
Strengthen the safety net for transitions. Wage insurance, portable benefits and income support during retraining all raise adaptive capacity directly.

For workers

Get hands-on with AI tools now. The researchers encourage workers in exposed roles to engage with AI proactively rather than wait for it to arrive.
Build transferable skills. Project coordination, data literacy, client relationships and process improvement carry across industries.
Make your expertise visible. Document the judgment calls, exceptions and relationships that AI can’t handle — that’s your case for an evolved role.
Grow your financial cushion where possible. Even modest savings widen your options if a transition comes.

Conclusion: The Window to Act Is Now

The claim that “6 million women will lose their jobs to AI” overstates what the research says. But the real finding is just as urgent: of the 6.1 million US workers most exposed to AI and least able to recover from job loss, 86% are women, concentrated in clerical and administrative work.

That gives employers and policymakers something rare — advance notice. We know which roles, which workers and which communities are most vulnerable. Acting early, through redeployment, paid reskilling and targeted transition support, can turn a looming gender gap in AI job displacement into an opportunity to build a more resilient workforce.

The question isn’t whether AI will change administrative work. It’s whether the women doing that work will be brought along — or left behind.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will 6 million women lose their jobs to AI?

Not exactly. Brookings research identifies 6.1 million US workers with high AI exposure and low capacity to adapt if displaced; about 86% (roughly 5.2 million) are women. It measures vulnerability, not confirmed job losses.

Why are women more at risk from AI job displacement?

Women are heavily concentrated in clerical and administrative occupations, which have high AI exposure. Workers in these roles also tend to be older, with lower savings and narrower skill sets — factors that make job transitions harder.

Which jobs are most at risk from AI?

Among highly exposed occupations, general office clerks, insurance sales agents, and interpreters and translators scored lowest on adaptive capacity in the Brookings analysis.

Is this only a US problem?

No. The ILO found that in high-income countries, 9.6% of women’s jobs fall into the highest AI-exposure category, compared with 3.5% of men’s.

How can women protect their careers from AI?

Build hands-on AI skills, develop transferable capabilities like data literacy and project coordination, document the judgment-based parts of your role, and look for employer-funded reskilling.

References

Manning, S., Aguirre, T., Muro, M., & Methkupally, S. (2026). Measuring US workers’ capacity to adapt to AI-driven job displacement. Brookings Institution.
Manning, S. J., & Aguirre, T. (2026). How Adaptable Are American Workers to AI-Induced Job Displacement? Centre for the Governance of AI; also NBER Working Paper 34705.
AOL. (2026). AI poses bigger threat in jobs with more women, study finds.
HRD / HC Online. (2026). Is AI coming for your job?
Sinclair National Desk via WJLA. (2026). AI coming for jobs? Some occupations might have harder time dealing with displacement.
International Labour Organization. (2025). One in four jobs at risk of being transformed by GenAI, new ILO–NASK Global Index shows.
International Labour Organization & NASK. (2025). Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure.
UN News. (2025). AI threatens one in four jobs – but transformation, not replacement, is the real risk.
Data Center Knowledge. (2023). AI Will Take More Jobs From Women Than Men by 2030, Report Says (on McKinsey Global Institute research).
Gizmodo. (2023). AI Advancements Put Women at Greater Risk of Losing Their Jobs, New Study Says.
Fortune. (2023). More jobs held by women are exposed to AI and automation, study finds (on Revelio Labs research).

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Your Golden Parachute: Why TotalHER Is the Place to Land

Executives get golden parachutes on the way out. Most women get a cardboard box. TotalHER is built to be the soft landing you were never offered, and the place you take off from next.

The parachute nobody handed you

A golden parachute is the payout a company promises its top executives if they lose their job. It exists so the people at the top never hit the ground hard.

Most women never get one. In 2025 and 2026 they got federal cuts, return-to-office mandates, hospitality layoffs and AI tools aimed squarely at administrative work. By July 2026, a net 845,000 women had left the US labor force since January, more than double the number of men, according to the National Women’s Law Center. Black women lost 251,000 jobs in the first eight months of 2025 alone.

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net women who left the US labor force between January and July 2026, more than double the number of men (NWLC analysis of BLS data).

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A parachute doesn’t stop the fall. It slows it down and lets you choose where you land. That’s the job TotalHER is built to do.

Your skills become offers. RequestHER sits on your profile and takes session bookings, business inquiries, purchase requests and collaboration invites, so people can pay you for what you already know.
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HER AI is your business partner. No going at it alone. Pick an income goal and HER AI builds a four-step roadmap (learn, build your audience, land your first opportunity, monetize), then coaches you with a daily action and revenue insights.
You land among peers. Circles connect you with women building the same thing, so you’re never figuring it out by yourself.

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You don’t need a following to land here. TotalHER is built for anyone whose expertise people will pay for: coaches, therapists, business and financial advisors, HR and career mentors, teachers and trainers, attorneys, wellness practitioners, freelance designers, writers, developers and marketers, artists and photographers, community organizers, and women whose life experience is the expertise.

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Share your link. Put it in your email signature, your LinkedIn and your bio.

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A parachute isn’t the end of the flight. It’s how you get back on the ground in one piece, on your terms, ready for what’s next. Whether you’ve been laid off, pushed out or just see the writing on the wall, TotalHER is the place to land.

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Sources

National Women’s Law Center. (August 7, 2026). July Jobs Report: Women Accounted for 100 Percent of the Labor Force Decline.
Institute for Women’s Policy Research. (February 10, 2026). One Year Into Trump’s Second Term, Black Women Face Disproportionate Job Losses.
TotalHER. Frequently Asked Questions and Not Just for Creators: 12 Professions That Can Use TotalHER to Turn Expertise Into Real Opportunities.

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How Many Black Women Have Lost Their Jobs Since 2025?

Black women lost 251,000 jobs in the first eight months of 2025, more than half of all job losses among women. Here’s what the numbers show through September 2026, and where the work goes next.

The short answer

There is no single official count of every Black woman who lost a job between January 2025 and today. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) measures jobs and unemployment month by month, not people across two years. But researchers who have worked through the BLS data agree on the shape of it:

251,000 jobs were lost by Black women between January and August 2025, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), using revised BLS data.
That was 54.7% of all job losses among women in that period, even though Black women made up just 14.1% of the female workforce.
By December 2025, 113,000 fewer Black women were employed than in January 2025, even after some hiring in the second half of the year.
In September 2026, the unemployment rate for Black women 20 and older jumped to 6.8%, up from 5.6% in August, according to the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC).

You may have seen a figure of 600,000 Black women losing their jobs in 2025 on social media. We couldn’t find the original analysis behind that number, so we’ve stuck to figures we can trace to their source.

54.7%

of women’s job losses from January to August 2025 fell on Black women, who make up 14.1% of working women (IWPR).

What happened in 2025: the federal cuts

Federal jobs have long been a path into the middle class for Black women. 5.1% of employed Black women worked for the federal government. That made them especially exposed when the federal workforce was cut in 2025.

Black women lost more than 30% of their federal employment between January and December 2025, compared with 11.6% for all women and 8.1% for all men (IWPR).
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) counts 95,371 federal jobs lost by Black women in 2025, about one-third of the entire federal contraction.
Black women’s employment rate fell 1.4 percentage points in 2025, one of the steepest one-year declines in about 25 years (EPI).
The share of Black women with bachelor’s degrees in the labor force fell 3.5 points, the largest drop of any education level (EPI).

That last point matters. These weren’t only entry-level jobs. Many of the women pushed out were degree-holding analysts, managers, program officers and specialists.

Black women’s unemployment rate since 2025

Month	Unemployment rate	Source
January 2025	5.4%	National Partnership for Women & Families
December 2025	7.3%	The 19th
January 2026	6.3%	National Partnership for Women & Families
February 2026	7.1%	NWLC
March 2026	6.1%	BLS, via The American Prospect
August 2026	5.6%	NWLC (ages 20+)
September 2026	6.8%	NWLC (ages 20+)

These figures come from different analyses, and some use slightly different age groups, so treat month-to-month comparisons as approximate. For comparison, the overall US unemployment rate was 4.2% in September 2026 (BLS).

Why a falling rate isn’t always good news

The unemployment rate only counts people who are actively looking for work. When women stop looking, because a search has dragged on for months or caregiving takes over, they leave the labor force and the rate can fall even though nobody got hired. Economist Valerie Wilson of EPI has said most of the rise in Black unemployment over the past year came from Black women losing jobs, not from more Black women entering the labor force.

Where the work goes next

The skills didn’t disappear with the jobs. A federal program manager still knows how to run a program. An HR specialist still knows how to coach a career. A policy analyst still knows how to research and advise.

That’s the gap Future of Work platforms are built for. On TotalHER, RequestHER turns that expertise into bookings, business inquiries and purchase requests. The Premium plan adds session booking and built-in web conferencing for coaching and consulting. And HER AI works as your business partner, so no one has to rebuild alone.

It won’t replace a federal salary overnight. But it’s a place to land, start earning on your own terms and build something nobody can cut from a budget.

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Sources

Institute for Women’s Policy Research. (February 10, 2026). One Year Into Trump’s Second Term, Black Women Face Disproportionate Job Losses.
Covert, B. (April 24, 2026). Federal Job Cuts Hit Black Women Hard—a Year Later, Unemployment Is Up. The American Prospect (citing EPI, BLS and OPM).
National Women’s Law Center. (October 2, 2026). September Jobs Report: Black Women’s Unemployment Increased.
National Partnership for Women & Families. (February 11, 2026). Weak Job Market Leaves Black Women Behind.
The 19th. (January 2026). Black women’s unemployment rate hit 7.3% in December.
Buffalo Challenger. (March 31, 2026). 600,000 Black Women Estimated To Have Lost Their Jobs in 2025 (citing NWLC for February 2026 unemployment).
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (October 2, 2026). The Employment Situation — September 2026.

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How Many Women Lost Work in 2026, and Who’s Filling the Gap

Hundreds of thousands of women have left the US workforce since January 2026, far more than men. Here’s what the jobs data shows, why it’s happening, and why Future of Work platforms like TotalHER are built to fill the gap.

The numbers so far

Job losses for women in 2026 show up most clearly in one measure: how many women have left the labor force, meaning they are neither working nor looking for work. According to the National Women’s Law Center’s analysis of BLS data:

By May 2026, more than 300,000 women had left the labor force since January.
By July 2026, the net figure hit 845,000 women, compared with 406,000 men.
As of September 2026, there were still 451,000 fewer women aged 20 and over in the labor force than in January. Over the same period, the number of men grew by 13,000.

451K

fewer women aged 20+ in the US labor force in September 2026 than in January, while men grew by 13,000 (NWLC).

As of	Net women out of the labor force since Jan 2026	Men
May 2026	300,000+	—
July 2026	845,000	406,000 fewer
August 2026	633,000	68,000 fewer
September 2026	451,000	13,000 more

Some women came back in August and September. But the gap with men has stayed wide all year.

July: women took every job loss

July 2026 was the clearest example. The economy lost 23,000 jobs. Women lost 32,000 while men gained 9,000, so women accounted for all of the month’s job losses. In leisure and hospitality, women lost 63,000 jobs while men gained 23,000. That same month, 165,000 women aged 20 and over left the labor force while men’s participation didn’t change (NWLC).

The National Partnership for Women & Families reported that the share of women 20 and older who were working fell to 55.6% in July, the lowest since late 2021, with the steepest declines among Black women and Latinas.

Why it’s happening

Public-sector cuts. Women lost 171,000 federal government jobs between January 2025 and July 2026 (NWLC). In September 2026 alone, government shed 17,000 jobs, and 11,000 of them were held by women.
Hospitality and local schools. Restaurants, hotels and local public education, all sectors with many women, drove much of the summer’s losses.
Long searches. In July, 24.3% of unemployed women had been looking for work for six months or longer (NWLC). Long searches push people out of the labor force entirely.
AI pressure on admin work. Brookings researchers found that 86% of the 6.1 million US workers most exposed to AI and least able to adapt are women, mostly in clerical and administrative roles. Read our breakdown.

The bigger picture in September

The September 2026 jobs report showed a weak market overall: employers added just 29,000 jobs, unemployment rose to 4.2% and labor force participation stood at 61.8% (BLS). Adult women’s unemployment rate was 3.6%, but that number leaves out the hundreds of thousands who stopped looking.

Why the Future of Work can fill the gap

Traditional employers are hiring slowly. That doesn’t mean the demand for women’s skills went away. People still need coaches, advisors, trainers, therapists, designers and writers. They just don’t always need them on a full-time payroll.

That’s the opening for Future of Work platforms, and it’s why TotalHER was built the way it was:

RequestHER lets women take session bookings, business inquiries, purchase requests and collaboration invites straight from their profile.
Book a Session and web conferencing on the Premium plan turn expertise into paid calls without extra tools.
The in-app Wallet keeps earnings in one place.
HER AI is your business partner. No going at it alone while you set up and grow.
It isn’t only for creators. Consultants, coaches, advisors, educators and business owners can all turn what they know into income.

None of this erases what 2026 has cost working women. But when the front door of the job market keeps closing, a platform that lets you open your own matters.

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Sources

National Women’s Law Center. (June 5, 2026). May Jobs Report: Over 300K Women Have Left the Workforce in 2026.
National Women’s Law Center. (August 7, 2026). July Jobs Report: Women Accounted for 100 Percent of the Labor Force Decline.
National Women’s Law Center. (September 4, 2026). August Jobs Report: Women Made Significant Labor Force Gains.
National Women’s Law Center. (October 2, 2026). September Jobs Report: Black Women’s Unemployment Increased.
National Partnership for Women & Families. (August 7, 2026). Women Are Losing Jobs.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (October 2, 2026). The Employment Situation — September 2026.
Manning, S., Aguirre, T., Muro, M., & Methkupally, S. (2026). Measuring US workers’ capacity to adapt to AI-driven job displacement. Brookings Institution.

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How Many Black Women Have Lost Their Jobs Since 2025?

How Many Women Lost Work in 2026, and Who’s Filling the Gap

The 6 Million Workers AI Could Leave Behind, and Why 86% Are Women

Let’s talk business.

Introduction: Behind the “6 Million Women” Headline

What the Brookings AI Report Found

Why Women Are Overrepresented Among Workers at Risk

The Global Picture: AI and Women in the Workforce

Exposure Is Not the Same as Job Loss

How to Protect Women’s Jobs From AI: What Each Group Can Do

For employers

For policymakers

For workers

Conclusion: The Window to Act Is Now

Frequently Asked Questions

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The parachute nobody handed you

What a real parachute looks like

It isn’t only for creators

Pack your parachute before you need it

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The short answer

What happened in 2025: the federal cuts

Black women’s unemployment rate since 2025

Why a falling rate isn’t always good news

Where the work goes next

Your expertise is still worth paying for.

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The numbers so far

July: women took every job loss

Why it’s happening

The bigger picture in September

Why the Future of Work can fill the gap

Don’t wait for a callback.

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