There are also signs that the net impacts may be most unfavourable for women. Fears about short-term adverse effects of digitalization and automaton on empbyment may be exaggerated, particularly if labour and educatbn policies promote complementarity between skills available in the workforce and newtechnologies. Since the impact of technology depends on the structure of each country's economy, the impact at the national level cannot be assumed to be necessarily negative, but rather requires a balanced analysis of the net effects of technological and market forces.