This research by McKinsey Global Institute highlights that women will need to make far more significant transitions compared to men and may find it more difficult to capture new opportunities because of the persistent barriers they face. The data shows that between 40 million and 160 million women - as many as one in four women employed today - may need to transition between occupations depending on the pace of automation, and often into higher-skilled roles, in order to remain employed and seize new job opportunities. While this is similar in scale to the number of transitions men need to make, the issue for women is that the new challenges of automation are overlaid on old barriers in work that have held back progress toward labour market gender equality. It notes that in the age of automation, men and women need more than ever to have the right skills, to be mobile and adaptable, and to be tech-savvy but due to the barriers they face, women lag behind men on all three.