Livestream: Pamela Newkirk on “Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business”
Sonia Kang chatted with award-winning journalist, professor of journalism, and author of "Diversity Inc.", Pamela Newkirk, on how we need to abandon ineffective, costly inclusivity measures and commit ourselves to combatting enduring racial attitudes.
Financial recovery goes hand in hand with social responsibility
Sarah Kaplan and the Lee-Chin Institutes' Rod Lohin write for The Toronto Star about the necessity for businesses to recognize that financial recovery must go hand in hand with social responsibility.
Livestream: Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya on “Artificial Intelligence and Bias”
In conversation with Sarah Kaplan, filmmaker Shalini Kantayya discussed her 2020 documentary film Coded Bias and the impact of Artificial Intelligence’s increasing role in governing our liberties.
Growing their own way: high-growth women entrepreneurs in Canada
Brookfield Institute
GATE Postdoctoral Fellow, Kim de Laat, co-authored a report offering an in-depth survey of the experiences of women founders as they scale their companies.
Remote work has been about survival. What’s happened to careers?
Sonia Kang appears on The Big Story podcast to discuss the shifting career landscape during COVID-19.
Why professional women may enact intentional invisibility
Gender bias and discrimination often prevent women from advancement throughout their careers. This study looks at how professional women enact a strategy of “intentional invisibility” to achieve their career goals when encountering structural gender inequality.
Toronto’s digital divide is leaving many people disconnected
NOW Magazine recognizes GATE and the YWCA's Feminist Economic Recovery Plan's coverage of how a digital divide has created a barrier to recovery.
How women’s empowerment messaging may impede gender equality
This brief examines five experimental studies which dispel the notion that women can reduce gender inequality in the workplace by simply “leaning in” and overcoming internal barriers like lack of confidence.
The outdated myth of the ‘growth at all costs’ entrepreneur is hurting women
The Globe and Mail
GATE Postdoctoral Fellow Kim de Laat writes about designing new strategies to better meet the unique needs of women founders and to encourage equitable long-term economic growth.