Who cares about child care?
The Hill Times
Sarah Kaplan writes about how the pandemic has shifted our understanding of care work and why now is the time to invest in accessible early childhood learning and care.
Early Childhood Education and Care – Transition Briefing
This policy brief, co-written by Sarah Kaplan, offers a new strategy to expand high-quality and affordable early childhood education and care in Ontario.
Equitable, affordable childcare key to “she-cession” recovery
CERIC
GATE's Carmina Ravanera writes about the key to a 'she-cession' recovery — equitable, affordable child care.
How the caring economy can revive us
Corporate Knights
Sarah Kaplan writes about the need to put caring back into the economy in order to achieve economic recovery.
Canada’s economic stability hinges on an equitable recovery for women
Policy Options
Sarah Kaplan and Carmina Ravanera write about the importance of focusing on an equitable recovery for women when tackling Canada's post-pandemic recovery.
A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for Canada
An exciting new collaborative release from GATE and the YWCA Canada, highlighting 8 pillars for recovery with a focus on supporting the care economy, investing in social infrastructure and lifting up women-owned businesses.
Work-life balance as a household negotiation
Drawing on ethnographic research with low income working women from rural India, this brief examines how women's paid work outside the home is often contingent on the availability of household members' willingness to help free up women’s time by taking up some of their domestic responsibilities
Remote work and gender inequality throughout and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic means that more people are working remotely than ever before, offering us a deeper understanding of the barriers and gendered aspects of remote work. Our brief highlights several characteristics of remote work as well as suggested policies for moving forward after the pandemic.
Primer on the gendered impacts of COVID-19
What role does gender play in the COVID-19 pandemic? This primer examines the gendered impacts of COVID-19, offering key resources and implications for policy and action.
Care responsibilities and work-life balance
The growing participation rates of women in the workforce have been accompanied by increasing demand for childcare services. Those services, however, are proving inadequate. Here's how organizations can do better.