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Empowering women in GenAI: playbook highlights strategies to close gender gap

posted on Mar. 07, 2025 at 9:20 amMar 7, 2025

In the UAE, women make up 23.8 per cent of Gen AI learners — a figure that, while reflecting ongoing efforts to increase female participation in STEM, also underscores the gender gap that still exists in Gen AI.

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Online learning platform Coursera has released the ‘Closing the Gender Gap in Gen AI Skills’ playbook, a new resource aimed at addressing the gender gap in generative AI (Gen AI) skills. The playbook explores actionable strategies to empower more women to harness Gen AI, highlighting the critical need for continued efforts to build a more inclusive and equitable AI landscape.

Women currently represent 32 per cent of global GenAI enrollments on Coursera. In the UAE, they make up 23.8 per cent of Gen AI learners — a figure that, while reflecting ongoing efforts to increase female participation in STEM, also underscores the gender gap that still exists in Gen AI.

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Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.