“We have a long, long history of women being excluded in certain ways from the economy,” said Sarah Kaplan, director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy and the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
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Research briefs, news, and event recaps related to economic prosperity.
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Hidden Business and Open Secrets: How Human Trafficking is Managed and What You Can Do About It
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The United Nations reports that 2.5 million people are trafficked each year. Approximately 80 per cent of victims are women and girls, with most engaged in the sex trade. The authors, members of the Massachusetts General Hospital Initiative to End Slavery, conducted research in eight metropolitan areas: New York City, Los Angeles, London, Manila, Mumbai, Kolkata (India), Rio de Janeiro and Salvador (Brazil), interviewing hundreds of health workers and anti-trafficking leaders. Based on their research, they make four recommendations for global businesses, who they encourage to exercise leadership in the effort to eradicate human trafficking.
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Canada’s pay gap: Women earn 87 cents on the dollar
Despite increasing participation of women in the Canadian workforce, females are still being paid less than their male counterparts according to a new Statistics Canada study evaluating women in the workplace and wage equality.
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International Women’s Day highlights gender pay gap in the workforce
Women still earn less than their male counterparts, said a segment on Global News. Prof. Sarah Kaplan commented on the pay gap.
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The double payoff of gender-based investing
According to findings of Daehyun Kim, assistant professor of accounting at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, women board members were likely to bring a half-dozen skills important to decision making that weren’t well represented: risk management, human resources, sustainability, politics or government, regulatory or compliance and corporate governance.
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The Rise of Gender Capitalism
Investing with a gender lens can create financial and social impact by increasing women’s access to capital, promoting workplace equity, and creating products and services that improve the lives of women and girls.
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Investing with a Gender Lens
Rotman Professor Sarah Kaplan describes the emerging investing movement that is using a ‘gender lens’ to uncover value.
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Budgeting for Equality: Lessons from the UK and beyond
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” parallax_speed=”0.3″ video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” overlay_color=”” video_preview_image=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” padding_top=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” padding_right=”” type=”legacy”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” center_content=”no” last=”true” min_height=”” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_sizes_top=”” border_sizes_bottom=”” border_sizes_left=”” border_sizes_right=”” first=”true”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” hue=”” saturation=”” lightness=”” alpha=”” content_alignment_medium=”” content_alignment_small=”” content_alignment=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” sticky_display=”normal,sticky” class=”” id=”” margin_top=”” margin_right=”” margin_bottom=”” margin_left=”” fusion_font_family_text_font=”” fusion_font_variant_text_font=”” font_size=”” line_height=”” letter_spacing=”” text_transform=”” text_color=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_color=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_delay=”0″ animation_offset=”” logics=””]On April 4, 2017, we had a day-long research round table on gender budgeting which included a public keynote speech from Diane Elson, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Essex and former Chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group.
For lessons learned from the gender budgeting research roundtable, see our research brief and infographic here.
For a short recap of Dr. Elson’s talk, see the video below.
About the talk
In a context of widening inequalities, it is more than ever important that the alignment of government budgets and social justice should be improved. Gender budgeting seeks to secure this through a focus on how budgets impact on gender equality and the well-being of women, in particular women who also experience other inequalities, such as those related to class, ethnicity, age, disability and sexual orientation. Professor Elson’s talk drew on UK experience with gender budgeting, focusing on the different and changing roles of government and civil society; the implications of equalities law; and research conducted by the UK Women’s Budget Group on the distributional impact of budget measures. She highlighted lessons learned that may have relevance to Canada.
About the speaker
Professor Elson is an internationally known researcher on gender, economic rights and social rights, and government budgets. She is one of the founding thought leaders for gender-responsive budgeting – the analysis and development of government budgets from a gender equality perspective, and has given presentations on this to government officials and parliamentarians in numerous countries, including South Africa, India, Brazil, Chile and Morocco. From 2009 to 2016, she served as chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group, which brings together feminist economists, researchers, policy experts and activists to work towards a gender-equal society in which women’s financial independence gives them greater autonomy at work, home, and in civil society. Professor Elson is a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy and consultant to UN Women. She has served as Vice-President of the International Association for Feminist Economic and on the advisory committee of the IMF project on gender budgeting. She is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at Essex, Research Associate at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University and has held visiting appointments at several schools including Carleton University, Ottawa. In 2016 she was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
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