Gender and the Economy

Author: Salwa Iqbal

  • Women, men, and time: How Lotte Bailyn reframed workplace practices

    Women, men, and time: How Lotte Bailyn reframed workplace practices

  • Accelerating progress towards gender equity in health and science

  • March 2024

    March 2024

  • Spectrum Success: Elevating Workplace Culture Through Autism Inclusion

    Spectrum Success: Elevating Workplace Culture Through Autism Inclusion

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    Topic: Spectrum Success: Elevating Workplace Culture Through Autism Inclusion

    Speakers:

    The Honourable Mike Lake, Member of Parliament

    Nadira Badri, Verification Officer, CIBC

    Heather Linka, Neurodiversity Employment Consultant

    Carole Mendonca, National Leader, Deloitte Accessibility

    Maja Djikic, Associate Professor & Executive Director, Self Development Lab, Rotman School of Management (moderator)

    Synopsis:

    GATE hosted an insightful panel discussion in partnership with Spectrum Works (powered by Substance Cares) for Autism Acceptance Month. The panel discussed key topics around the successful integration of autism into workplace diversity. Panelists shared meaningful policies and programs that corporations and government can use to engage the autistic community. They also discussed strategies to bridge hiring gaps, enhance workplace culture, and support divergent thinking.

    Featuring insightful speakers and experts with firsthand experience in navigating employment with autism, the panel aimed to empower professionals to become champions of autism in the workplace.

    View the full event recording to learn the key takeaways from the event.

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  • Maja Djikic on ‘The Possible Self: A Leader’s Guide to Personal Development’

    Maja Djikic on ‘The Possible Self: A Leader’s Guide to Personal Development’

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    Topic: Maja Djikic on ‘The Possible Self: A Leader’s Guide to Personal Development’

    Dean Susan Christoffersen of the Rotman School of Management hosted a discussion with Maja Djikic, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Director of the Self-Development Laboratory and Faculty Teaching Fellow at GATE. At the event, they highlighted the insights from Maja’s new book, ‘The Possible Self: A Leader’s Guide to Personal Development’ with over 700 event attendees.

    Maja shared with us that in order to discover purpose and achieve real, lasting change, we need to move beyond narrowly targeted ideas and strategies like changing our mindset or slightly altering our behaviour, and instead go deeper and focus on our innate desires and achieve true healing.

    Maja explored how sustained change can only happen when all five parts of ourselves move in the same direction and at the same time. She introduced a transformational system called the Wheel of Change—a simple, five-segment plan that corresponds with the five key parts of ourselves: Desires, Actions, Emotions, Thoughts, and Body.

    Maja also discussed external factors in our lives, such as discrimination, stereotyping, and bias, and how they can hinder our ability to heal and move forward, especially affecting those in marginalized communities. She emphasized the importance of healing, highlighting its role in fostering growth and positive change within our communities.

    “There’s this dichotomy that ‘we need to change the world, not the person’, but we can help ourselves heal so we can interact with the world in a way that benefits us.”

    – Maja Djikic

     

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  • Remote work and inequality: Lessons for leaders

    Remote work and inequality: Lessons for leaders

  • Translating Insights into Impact: Using Gender-Based Analysis to Create Transformational Innovation

    Translating Insights into Impact: Using Gender-Based Analysis to Create Transformational Innovation

    This report, which is a collaboration between GATE and the Criterion Institute, highlights the power of gender-based analysis to uncover novel insights derived from addressing the needs of previously overlooked and marginalized groups. This approachoffers substantial benefits to organizations, industries, and sectors. The Institute for Gender and the Economy coined the term “Gender Analytics” to capture the qualitative and quantitative analytical and design processes required to do gender-based analysis.   

    The Criterion Institute has been at the forefront of gender-lens investing, which is the integration of gender analysis into investment systems. In doing so, they have focused on the systems of power that underlie marginalization, and ways to build capacity to analyze patterns of power dynamics, which they call a “translation” capability.  

    This report shows how gender-based analysis and the “translation” function enabled 4 organizations to uncover opportunities that organizations operating in traditional ways have not been able to address or even identify. We hope this report and the accompanying full case studies in the appendix spark ideas and conversations on how organizations can leverage the numerous benefits of intersectional gender-based insights. 

    Read ‘Translating Insights into Impact: Using Gender-Based Analysis to Create Transformational Innovation’ Report

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  • Is a diversity backlash coming to Canada?

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