Public events and press that bring insights on gender and the economy to life for practitioners
Upcoming events
Postponed – Experts Discuss “How Innovation in Accessible Products, Services & Mindsets Promotes Change”
Postponed due to COVID-19. GATE presents a panel discussion co-hosted by Access to Success at Rotman, Human Capital Club, The Letters, and WIMA on how inclusive innovation can promote change in organizations and society.
Postponed – Transitioning Employers: A survey of policies and practices for trans inclusive workplaces
Postponed due to COVID-19. Toronto launch of an exciting new report, looking at the first trans inclusion workplace policies audit across Canada’s largest employers by GATE and Pride at Work Canada: a panel discussion and networking reception.
Stephanie Kelton on “The Deficit Myth”
Stephanie Kelton, author and Professor of Economics and Public Policy, joins GATE to go beyond asking the self-defeating question of how to pay for the crucial improvements our society needs, but rather to ask: which deficits actually matter? | June 23, 2020
Cleo Stiller on “Modern Manhood: Conversations About the Complicated World of Being a Good Man”
Cleo Stiller will converse with Nouman Ashraf about "Modern Manhood", and what it means to genuinely be a good man, whether in dating, work, or money, and everything else in between. | September 9, 2020
In the news
Innovations in Advancing Gender Equality
The Toronto Star highlights a special symposium to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day. The event was held at Rotman on March 3rd and was kicked off with a talk by Sonia Kang.
What’s the best way to create an inclusive company? A top cop, a university prof and a CEO weigh in
In a conversation moderated by The Globe and Mail’s Deborah Aarts, Sonia Kang and two other experts discuss building —and maintaining—an inclusive workplace.
To address the needs of Canadians during the COVID-19 crisis, we need a targeted basic income
In this perspective piece for The National Post, GATE faculty research fellow Dionne Pohler argues for targeted basic income to meet the urgency of the COVID crisis.
34 things Canada’s innovators think the government should do to help the economy through the COVID-19 crisis
The Logic asked more than three dozen business executives, entrepreneurs, academics and economists, including Sarah Kaplan, for ideas on what the government can do now to help the innovation economy get through the health and economic crisis.
