Women in AI
A volunteer non-profit with chapters listed in about 40 countries. Policy, ethics, mentoring, awards and hackathons.
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I'm building a list of women who are building with AI. Founders, trainers, marketers, analysts and makers. Tell me what you've built, and every Friday I'll help more people see it.
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56 women in my network alone.
women in my own LinkedIn network with AI in their job title
networks for women in AI, found in one afternoon
women named every Friday, with what each one built
of US hires into AI roles were women, against 50% for every other role
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I read every one myself. If you've said yes to a post, I'll tag you when it goes up. Keep an eye on my Friday posts on LinkedIn.
Why I’m fired up
I’ve read them all, so you don’t have to. Here’s what the headlines say, what the numbers underneath actually show, and why I’ve had enough of the first story.
I’ve had enough.Women use generative AI at a 25% lower rate than men, across 18 studies and more than 140,000 people.
Used generative AI in the past year, US Federal Reserve survey, 2024
Harvard Business School, February 2025of women in the US say they’ve had no AI training at work, against 49% of men.
of US hires into AI roles in 2025 were women, against 50% of hires into every other role.
Read past the headline and the gap is in what women are given. Encouragement, credit, a microphone and a seat at the top.
of women have been encouraged by their manager to use AI. For men it’s 37%.
of women using AI at work have been praised for it, against 23% of men. And 29% worry they’ll be seen as cheating.
Men are quoted as AI experts 4.3 times more often than women, and named in AI headlines 14.6 times more often.
of C-suite AI leadership roles are held by women. The typical AI job advertises around US$177,000 a year.
Women’s use of generative AI tripled in a single year, from 11% to 33%. Men’s grew 2.2 times.
of AI engineering talent are women, up from 23.5% in 2018. The gap narrowed in 74 of 75 countries.
The reports count who got trained, who got hired and who got quoted. None of them count the women already doing the work. So I’m building that list myself, one woman at a time, wherever you are in the world. Add your name and you count.
Most of these studies measure women in the US. The pattern is the same wherever I look.
Where women are training women
Women aren’t waiting for the workplace to teach them AI. All over the world, they’re teaching each other.
A volunteer non-profit with chapters listed in about 40 countries. Policy, ethics, mentoring, awards and hackathons.
Visit Women in AIConferences, datathons and an ambassador programme reaching 77 countries.
Visit WiDSAI courses, events and local meetups, with ambassadors in more than 20 countries.
Visit SheAIA charity for women in tech, founded by Dr Mahsa McCauley. More than 3,500 members across New Zealand.
Visit She SharpKarrina Mountfort’s NZ AI community. Its HerAIStory programme is for women using and learning AI, with a monthly online meetup.
Join HerAIStoryNew Zealand’s yearly Women in Data Science conference, part of the global WiDS network.
Visit WiDS NZKnow a community I’ve missed? Tell me about it
On LinkedIn so far
Women are building with AI, and teaching each other how. Swipe through both.
Where this list started, and the 56 women I found in my own network.
My answer to the Harvard report on women and AI training, and where women are training each other.
Friday roll call
Tell me what you’re building. It takes two minutes.
Add your nameSee every roll call on my LinkedIn.
You stay in charge
When you sign up, you choose how you’re featured. Tap an option to see what each one means.
Building [what you told me, in your words]. Tag her and say hello.
You go on my running list of women building with AI. It helps me show the real number, and it stays private.
You're not named and you're not on the list. I'll keep you posted when there's something worth your time, like a roll call or a meet-up.
How it works
Here's what happens to your entry, from the form to a Friday post. Tap a step to jump to it.
No bots sorting the list. If you've said yes to a post, I write it from your own words and tag you when it's live.
A few lines on how AI shows up in your work. Big or small, it all counts.
About two minutesA Friday post, the list only, or just keep me in the loop. Your call.
Change it any timeNo bots sorting the list. I write your post from what you've told me.
Read by meEvery Friday I name three women on LinkedIn, with what each of them built.
Every Friday
Who's behind this
I run Charisma Digital in Auckland. I build the AI systems that run marketing for small businesses: strategy, systems, automation and content.
Before AI, I spent decades building websites, Shopify stores, strategies and campaigns by hand. That's how I know what good work looks like, and it's why I notice the women doing it well.
In 2010 I hosted the first Lovewine Professional dinner in Auckland, for women working in wine. The next morning a guest wrote, “It wasn’t a man’s world last night.” This list is me doing the same thing for women in AI. Making the women already doing the work easier to find.
See what I buildNo. Most of the women I found don't have it. If AI is part of how you do your work, you belong on this list.
No. I'm in Auckland and plenty of the women in my network are here, but the list is open to women building with AI anywhere.
Only in the way you choose: a Friday post, the list only, or neither. If you say yes to a post, I write it from what you’ve told me and tag you when it goes up. Want something changed? Tell me and I’ll fix it.
Yes. I also name women I already know are building with AI, using what they share publicly, like their LinkedIn profile. Rather not be named? Email lisa@charismadigital.co.nz and I won’t name you again.
No. It's free, there's nothing to buy, and you don't need to sign up for my emails to join.
I use them for this list and the Friday posts, in the way you've said yes to. They aren't shared or sold.
Email lisa@charismadigital.co.nz and I'll take you off. No questions, no forms.
Send her this page, or tag her on my Friday posts and tell me what she built.
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