2022 ANNUAL REPORT
DIRECTOR’S LETTER
In 2022, we all have been asking, what’s the “new normal”? Nothing about how any of us lives or works is quite the same since the pandemic hit. At GATE, we’ve been working both on helping our students, fellows and faculty get the support they need to keep doing amazing work and on using that research to shape conversations about the future of work and the economy at large. As an example, our 2020 Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for Canada (a joint project with YWCA Canada) was one of the resources that shaped the government of Canada’s 2021 announcement of $10/day childcare. And, in 2022, we launched our Future of Work report that looks at whether remote work will help or hinder the pursuit of equality. Based on cutting-edge research insights, the report offers insights for corporate leaders and government policy makers on how to design work for inclusion. In this annual report, you’ll also see examples of the incredible research that our affiliated scholars have produced and the myth-busting ideas they are bringing to the world. We’ve also been turning our attention to the ways that equity can be embedded not just in an organization’s talent management systems but also in the ways that governments, companies and nonprofits design their products, services and policies. We’re calling this idea “Gender Analytics”: by examining the ways that gender and its intersections with race, ethnicity, disability, Indigeneity, socioeconomic class and other identities influence our product, service and policy design, we can come up with more inclusive go-to-market strategies. We’re spreading the word through our online 5-course series on Coursera and our April 2023 conference, “Gender Analytics: Possibilities” among other upcoming initiatives. Our small-but-mighty team is passionate about telling stories that create a vision of a more equal world, and we hope you’ll join us in supporting our work. In solidarity,
Sarah Kaplan Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto January 1, 2023
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IN REVIEW 2022
Our Four Pillars
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Training Leaders Shaping Practice
Building Community
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The Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) is using rigorous research to change the conversation on gender equality. We take an intersectional lens in our work, paying attention to the ways that race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, ability, immigrant status and other factors shape policies, strategies and outcomes. Our Mission
At GATE, we are changing the conversation on gender equality by... ...instigating academic research, mythbusting tired ideas, and inspiring disruptive change.
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Creating New Insights convened leading research scholars new grants for a total 5 $38,825
Learn more about our 2022 grant recipients
Naming and Framing of Minority Group Labels
Naming and Framing of Minority Group Labels (Grusha Agarwal) Promoting Economic Inclusion Among Racialized Migrant Women (Rupaleem Bhuyan) The Role of Gender in Knowledge Contribution and Patenting (Manuela Collis) Gender Discrimination in Remote and On-Site Work: A Survey of Managers’ Perceptions (Laura Doering) Strengthening the Investment Case for Action on Gender-Based Violence and Child Maltreatment in Canada (Beverley Essue & Sujata Mishra)
Racial group labels such as “BIPOC” (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), “underrepresented minorities,” and “visible minorities” are widely used by companies, governments, policy makers, and in the popular media. Yet, there is a lack of consensus around which labels are most inclusive and “correct.” This project will survey large, nationally representative samples in the United States and Canada to investigate perceptions and attitudes related to the use of racial group labels in formal and informal contexts, with a particular emphasis on how these perceptions and attitudes are shaped by intersectional group identification across gender, racial, age, and other lines.
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Creating New Insights convened leading research scholars
We fund emerging scholars working on topics that are central to GATE’s mission. I was able to build my research identity around diversity and inclusion thanks to tangible and intangible resources that were afforded to me as part of the postdoctoral fellowship sponsored by GATE. My postdoctoral fellowship was initially affected by COVID-19, but the GATE team worked tirelessly to help me enter Canada and transition into a new role and environment. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow, I am very excited to begin my new role at GATE as a project lead for Gender Analytics and Assistant Professor of Strategic Management. Dr. Hyeun Lee, GATE Postdoctoral Fellow “
Dr. Victor Marsh
Dr. Hyeun Lee
Dr. Angie Min Ah Park
Dr. Lucienne Talba
Dr. Camellia Bryan (starting January 2023)
Dr. Kourtney Koebel
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Training Leaders inspired new ways of thinking
2022-23 MBA Fellows
MBA Fellows receive a $10,000 bursary to work on a research project of their choosing related to GATE’s mandate.
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Pritika Poddar
Mauricio Sanchez Ramirez
Yinzi Gao
Dotun Ogunlela
Christopher Hand
The experience of immigrant woman lawyers
Understanding what it means to be gender non- conforming
Workplace challenges faced by new mothers
The gender gap in investing
Gender bias in consumer advertising
Meet our 2021-22 MBA Fellows
Rewind
Watch a video summary of our 2021-2022 MBA Fellow projects.
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Training Leaders inspired new ways of thinking
Meet a GATE Fellow
PhD Fellow
GATE PhD Fellows
We’re proud to support a diverse and talented group of early-career researchers in their cutting- edge research on how intersectional gender-based insights can lead to innovative interventions to achieve equality.
Learn more about our Fellows
GATE has an interdisciplinary approach where people with similiar research interests—but different academic and professional backgrounds—come together. There is a constant exchange of ideas.” Daphné Baldassari, GATE PhD Fellow “
Grusha Agarwal
Daphné Baldassari Studying structural interventions to increase diversity
Manuela Collis
Laura Lam
Examining labels for underrepresented minorities
Exploring the role of gender in innovation and patenting
Studying immigrant women’s use of technology platforms
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GENDER ANALYTICS
Training Leaders inspired new ways of thinking
Our Gender Analytics Coursera 5-course series has 14,000+ learners worldwide.
170 MBA students registered
GATE's Gender Analytics Competency Framework has informed WAGE's technical criteria for assessing Gender- Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) competencies in the government.
GATE designed a gamification platform where students compete and collect points, earn badges, and gain a Gender and Equity Champion certificate.
Fascinating case studies and interviews! I truly loved this course.
Learn more at GenderAnalytics.org
“I am so happy to have such a robust and well-researched library of resources available to students. GATE is doing important work—using hard evidence to show the real effects of gender and other core aspects of identity on the workforce and the economy overall.” —Christopher Hand, first naviGATE Gender and Equity Champion winner
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Shaping Practice changed the conversation
In 2022, we kept a hybrid format for our events
GATE’s 2022 in highlights
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Podcast episodes
Videos
Let’s turn the corporate ladder into a corporate ramp. “ Watch highlights from our Erasing Barries event in which panelists explored the importance of representation of people with disabilities in leadership positions and gave their advice on how to build the talent pipeline.
Public events
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Articles for practitioners
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Research overviews
Tim Rose, Senior Consultant, Accessibility, Client Experience team, CIBC, speaking on accessibility initiatives in the work place.
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Read our report
Shaping Practice Care Work in the Recovery Economy
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Hearing from those who perform the essential work of care is a necessary first step to achieving equality in both paid and unpaid care work. This must be matched with new measures to track the impact of care on well-being and on the economy. The pandemic has served as a portal for society to recognize how the work of care is intricately linked to social and economic outcomes.
Care Work in the Recovery Economy: Towards a Caring Economy
Watch the highlights from our research roundtable on the future of the care economy
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Shaping Practice The Future of Work
Statistics Canada reports that 80% of those who began working remotely during the pandemic would prefer to continue working at least half of their hours at home. But remote work can be a double-edged sword for equality in the workplace, and organizations need to take measures to ensure well-being and fairness for all employees working from home. “
Read our report on the future of equitable work
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Shaping Practice changed the conversation
Workers feel corporate COVID-19 equity policies ‘not genuine,’ study says “Organizations often have a gap between enacted values and espoused values. Simply having a policy around COVID or racial equity means nothing if the actual behaviour isn’t shifting.” Nouman Ashraf, GATE Faculty Teaching Fellow for the Toronto Star, 2022
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The GATE team was heavily consulted by the Federal government in 2021 in shaping Canada’s new affordable childcare policy and its implementation
Shaping Practice policy impact
GATE Director Sarah Kaplan spoke before the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology on September 28, 2022, regarding the role of Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) in the policy process.
We’re seeing encouraging signs that our consultations are generating impact
Record employment rate for women shows Trudeau’s subsidized daycare plan is working
NEWS
Watch the full testimony
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events with 11 2,129 attendees
Shaping Practice Changed the conversation
Jacqueline Quinless on “Decolonizing Data”
In 2022, we began offering many events with in-person and livestream options, so our audience could attend in a way that was most accessible for them.
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Tina Opie on “Shared Sisterhood: Collective Action for Racial & Gender Equality at Work”
A fair and just economic recovery involves a green recovery, a feminist recovery, and an economic recovery that looks at the needs of various municipalities across the country. We need to ensure that we incorporate good urban planning policies into the cities we build and re-build. Brittany Andrew-Amofah, Manager, Policy & Research, Federation of Canadian Municipalities, at Feminist City 3.0 event
“We CAN Break Free: What it Takes to Challenge Gender-Based Violence”
Check out our 2022 event recaps
Check out our upcoming events!
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Shaping Practice Changed the conversation
Creating podcasts on the most hotly debated topics about gender and the economy
Our signature series Busted is available on our newly launched GATE audio Apple channel and GATE audio playlist on Spotify. Stay tuned for season 2 in 2023.
5 series, 18 episodes
1,126 listeners
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Building Community deepened partnerships
grew our network
Partners to advance research
Industry Partners to co-create insights
With our Community, Academic and Government partnerships, we will continue to advance research and policy impact.
Industry partners are a select group of organizations that are front-runners in creating, leading, and managing change.
With funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada, we’re amplifying our Gender Analytics programming, expanding our behavioural research and launching a global research network on the Care Economy.
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Building Community deepened partnerships
Power Circle to disrupt norms Power Circle members pledge $50,000 or more to support GATE in making disruptive change to promote gender equality.
Individual Supporters
to embrace change
Individual supporters are passionate about creating, leading, and managing change.
The Mark S. Bonham Charitable Foundation Molline Green (MBA ’98) Vanessa Serra Iarocci Sarah Kaplan (Distinguished Professor of Gender & the Economy) Jonathan Lister (B.A. ’94, MBA ’00) Kevin Lobo (MBA ’95) Kerrie MacPherson (B.Comm ’86, MBA ’91) Anita McGahan (George E. Connell Chair in Organizations & Society)
Dilek Karaso (MBA ’20) Bonnie Gar-Kay Lam Jennifer Lancaster and Blaine Padgett Ruth Mandel – WHO GIVES Fund Dolores Keating-Mallen Jennifer Molluso Carolyn Morris Ashley Nagi (MBA ‘20) Pablo L. Nazé (MBA ‘20) Chinedum Nwaogwugwu (MBA ‘20) Narjis Premjee (MBA ’19) Adil Sethi (MBA ’19) Kim Shannon (MBA ‘93) Camille Simardone (BCOMM ’14) Marilyn Spink Geoffrey and Kenya Thompson-Leonardelli Myha Truong-Regan Helen Vavougios (MBA ’16) Rosemary Williamson (MBA ’20)
Sarah Albo (MBA ’18) Cara L. Allaway Hugh J. Arnold Craig Barlow
Andrea Vasquez Camargo Heather Campbell (MBA ’19) Teresa Catalano Anna Y. Chau (MBA ’17) Jillian E. Darroch Chown (MBA ’06, PhD ’16) Darlene E. Clover (BA ’94, PhD ’99)
The Evangelist Family Kecen F. Fan (MBA ‘15) Kimberely Fletcher Delee Fromm Jingqi Guo
Barry McInerney (B.Comm ’85, MBA ’87) Rosemary McInerney (B.A. ’86, B.Ed 88) Florence S. Narine (MBA ‘05) Hilary Partner (MBA ’18)
Dr. Wei He (PhD ’01) Rocca Morra Hodge Verónica Hernandez Herrera (MBA ’19) Janet Hudgins Farah Huq Celeste Jalbert (MBA ’17)
Stacy Zosky Anonymous
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Building Community grew our networks
What Your Support Means to Us After 5 years as a startup, GATE moves into a new era with a $10 million fundraising goal. With visionary philanthropic support, we will amplify and expand on this impact. Together we can build a robust research, education and community outreach program. We can set the future course of gender equality in our economy — both within Canada, and around the world. But, we can’t do it without contributions from GATE supporters like you.
Through our various projects, GATE has achieved a global reach and witnessed the growth of our community, near and far. Digital Engagement
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Who We Are
Meet the GATE team
“GATE is like a start-up. We are constantly innovating, not only by supporting cutting-edge research but also in how we transform academic findings into practical insights.”
Nouman Ashraf Faculty Teaching Fellow
Kate Bezanson Faculty Research Fellow, on leave
Daphne Baldassari PhD Fellow
Grusha Agarwal PhD Fellow
Camellia Bryan Postdoctoral Fellow
Chanel Grenaway Advisor; Instructor
Manuela Collis PhD Fellow
Maja Djikic Faculty Teaching Fellow
Lechin Lu Associate Director
Sarah Kaplan Director
Sonia K. Kang Faculty Research Fellow
Vanessa Serra Iarocci Executive-in-Residence; Instructor
Yongah Kim Faculty Teaching Fellow
Kourtney Koebel Postdoctoral Fellow
Lechin Lu, Associate Director
Victor Marsh Postdoctoral Fellow
Hyeun Lee Postdoctoral Fellow
Laura Lam PhD Fellow
Nicola Lacetera Faculty Research Fellow
Dionne Pohler Faculty Research Fellow
Lindsay Manning Director of Development (Rotman Advancement)
Nika Stelman Alumna-in-Residence; Instructor
Angie Min Ah Park Postdoctoral Fellow
Carmina Ravanera Senior Research Associate
Salwa Iqbal Digital Communications Officer
Click here to learn more about the GATE team!
Lucienne Talba Postdoctoral Fellow
András Tilcsik Faculty Research Fellow
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The Institute for Gender and the Economy operates on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.
CHANGING THE CONVERSATION ON GENDER EQUALITY
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