Care work is foundational to societies and to humanity. But even though everyone needs care, care work and those who provide it are often ignored, trivialized, or devalued. Why? Part of the reason is that care work is gendered: there’s a myth that care work is women’s work and that women just have the natural skill to be carers. In this episode, experts share research that shows that caring for others is a skill that anyone can and should learn – and if everyone participated in care, we could have more empathetic, healthier societies and relationships. 

Featured Guests: 

Dr. Taveeshi Gupta, Director of Research, Evaluation and Learning at Equimundo 

Dr. Darby Saxbe, Professor of Psychology at University of Southern California 

Produced by: Carmina Ravanera and Dr. Sonia Kang 

Edited by: Ian Gormely 

GATE’s Busted podcast is made possible by generous support by BMO. 

Overview: What causes the gender pay gap? Is it just because women are choosing lower-paying jobs? Are they just not qualified enough to make higher salaries? Think again. There are structural and historical dynamics that lead to unequal outcomes we observe in pay today. This episode with GATE founder, Dr. Sarah Kaplan, delves into how labour market biases influences the gender pay gap. 

This episode was written and produced by the team at Level the Paying Field, a podcast by Ontario’s Pay Equity Office. Visit https://payequity.gov.on.ca/ for more great resources, and listen to the rest of the podcast at https://levelthepayingfield.ca/. 

Featured Guest: Dr. Sarah Kaplan, Founder of Institute for Gender and the Economy 

Level the Paying Field Host: Kadie Ward, Commissioner and Chief Administrative Officer, Ontario Pay Equity Commission 

Busted Producers and Hosts: Carmina Ravanera and Dr. Sonia Kang 

Busted Editor: Ian Gormely 

Episode 11: Special Episode–Dr. Tina Opie on Shared Sisterhood 

Overview: How can we make meaningful progress on equity and inclusion? Now that we’ve busted many different myths about gender and the economy, you might be wondering about more concrete steps you can take to change inequality in your workplace and daily life. On this special episode, Dr. Tina Opie shares three practices for dismantling systemic inequities from her book Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work, co-authored with Dr. Beth A. Livingston. This special episode was written and produced by the team at our sister podcast, Rotman Visiting Experts. 

Featured Guest: Dr. Tina Opie, Associate Professor of Management at Babson College; Founder of Opie Consulting Group 

Visiting Experts Host: Brett Hendrie 

Visiting Experts Producer: Megan Haynes 

Visiting Experts Recording: Dan Mazzotta 

Visiting Experts Editor: Damian Kearns 

Busted Producers and Hosts: Carmina Ravanera and Dr. Sonia Kang 

Busted Editor: Ian Gormely 

Overview: There’s a perception that gender-based violence (GBV) only happens in the home, and that means it’s a private matter, just for families or partners to deal with. This is a misconception that can keep survivors from reporting violence and finding support. Gender-based violence is a human rights violation that encompasses many types of actions including harassment, assault, manipulation, and abuse. It can happen anywhere, including in workplaces, schools, and public spaces, and has significant consequences for all of society. In this episode, we hear from experts from different organizations working against gender-based violence to understand why it is not a private issue but something that everyone should be working to address.

This episode is based on an event we held in December 2022 for the 16 Days of Action Against Gender- Based Violence. See a recap of the event here: https://www.gendereconomy.org/we-can-break-free-what- it-takes-to-challenge-gender-based-violence/

If you liked this episode, you may be interested in other GATE events. Check out our upcoming listing here: https://www.gendereconomy.org/events/

Featured Guests:

Pam Hrick, Executive Director and General Counsel, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund; Harmy Mendoza, Executive Director, Women Abuse Council of Toront; Paulette Senior, CEO and President, Canadian Women’s Foundation
Producers and Hosts: Carmina Ravanera and Dr. Sonia Kang

Editor: Ian Gormely

Since the pandemic, remote work has become much more commonplace, especially for knowledge workers. While it has many advantages for workers, remote work isn’t going to mitigate inequality unless organizations implement it purposefully and with the intention to prioritize well-being and equity for workers. This episode delves into the effects of remote work on workplace inequality and makes suggestions for better workplaces for all. This special episode was written and produced by Rotman Executive Summary and features GATE’s director, Sarah Kaplan, and Senior Research Associate Carmina Ravanera.

Featured Guests: 

Dr. Sarah Kaplan, Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy, and Distinguished Professor of Gender & the Economy, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Carmina Ravanera, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Gender and the Economy, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Rotman Executive Summary Producers: Megan Haynes and Jessie Park

Rotman Executive Summary Editor/Sound Designer: Avery Moore Kloss

Rotman Executive Summary Recording: Dan Mazzotta 

Busted Producers and Hosts: Carmina Ravanera and Dr. Sonia Kang

Busted Editor: Ian Gormely

If women just negotiated more, maybe they’d close the gender pay gap, right? Think again. While some popular media has characterized women as just needing to step up and ask for more to change inequality, research shows that when they do negotiate, they often face backlash for going against gender norms. In this episode, we discuss how people of different social groups experience different responses when they try to negotiate – and how women negotiate in many different ways beyond just for pay.  

Featured Guests: 

Dr. Hannah Riley Bowles, Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School

Dr. Angelica Leigh, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Duke University Fuqua School of Business

Producers and Hosts: Carmina Ravanera and Dr. Sonia Kang

Editor: Ian Gormely

What makes a good leader? When you hear this question, do you think about traits like assertiveness, ambition, and determination?  

A lot of people may be surprised to realize that as a society, we often associate good leadership with stereotypically masculine traits. In fact, a range of different traits—including both stereotypically masculine and feminine traits—make effective leaders. This episode delves into the myth that good leadership is masculine leadership and explores how we can facilitate more diverse and representative leaders across our workplaces and our societies. 

Featured Guests:  

Dr. Felix Danbold, Assistant Professor, University College London School of Management  

Dr. Joyce He, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, University of California Los Angeles 

What is intersectionality, anyway? We’ll demystify it in this episode--and delve into the myth that gender inequality can have a one-size-fits-all solution. 

Intersectionality shows us how we need to consider how our different social identities such as race, gender, religion, Indigeneity, immigrant status, disability, and sexual identity all intersect to play a significant role in how we experience the world. So, rather than creating policies, services, and research that homogenize people, we need to make sure we apply intersectionality—or we risk leaving people behind. 

Featured Guests: 
Dr. Sharla Alegria, Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Toronto
Dr. Courtney McCluney, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Cornell University

Sexual harassment is often portrayed as an issue that only concerns women, where women are victims of harassment because they were “asking for it” through their behaviours or dress. This portrayal puts the onus on women to stop harassment by simply changing their actions. . Yet, sexual harassment is not a “women’s issue” in the sense that victims can be of any gender and perpetrators tend to be men. This perception also ignores the reality that sexual harassment is often about having power and control over someone else. We bust this common myth to show that it is imperative that the social norms that drive harassment and toxic work cultures are addressed instead of blaming the actions of women.

Featured Guests:

Dr. NiCole Buchanan, Michigan State University

Dr. Rachel Ruttan, University of Toronto

Hosted by Alyson Colón and Carmina Ravanera

For more research and resources please visit our website (https://www.gendereconomy.org) or click here .

For transcript + show notes please visit out website (www.gendereconomy.org/Busted) or click here.

This podcast is a GATE Audio production from the University of Toronto’s Institute for Gender and the Economy: www.gendereconomy.org

Popular discourse tends to depict women as less likely than men to take risks. Christine LaGarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, famously implied that women make less risky financial decisions when she stated that the financial crisis of 2008 would not have occurred “if it had been Lehman Sisters rather than Lehman Brothers”. But are women really more risk-averse than men? Research has in fact shown that men and women are more similar in their risk preferences than commonly believed. We bust this myth with leading experts to show that women may act more risk- averse only because of gender norms that place expectations on them to do so.

Featured Guests:

Dr. Thekla Morgenroth, previously of University of Exeter and now at Purdue University 

Dr. Julie Nelson, University of Massachusetts Boston

Research Mentioned:

For more research and resources (https://www.gendereconomy.org) or click here .

For transcript + show notes please visit out website (www.gendereconomy.org/Busted) or click here.

This podcast is a GATE Audio production from the University of Toronto’s Institute for Gender and the Economy: www.gendereconomy.org