The Mission The Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) is using rigorous research to change the conversation on gender equality.
Our Work
At GATE, we are changing the conversation on gender equality by: Activating myth-busting insights from academic research Advancing game-changing guidance Inspiring students and leaders to make disruptive change
Click here to watch Pamela Newkirk blow the lid off of the diversity industry and get real about the work you actually need to be doing.
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The real answer to diversity, and the discomfort with diversity is diversity ,” Pamela Newkirk, Professor of Journalism, New York University, award-winning journalist, and author of Diversity, Inc.: The Fight for Racial Equality in the Workplace
Our Four Pillars Creating New Insights Training Leaders Shaping Practice Building Community
WFH
2020 In Review
Creating New Insights convened leading research scholars
7 new grants to
11 researchers, for a total of
$50,000
Trust and Inclusion in Organizational Life This in-depth, qualitative field study examines a missiondriven service provider. The company’s workforce is substantially more racially and ethnically diverse than their competitors, and their service delivery leadership team is predominantly female, with many of them women of colour. This project will examine the company’s efforts to build an inclusive organization centred on trust and respect, and how those efforts intersect with their innovative service delivery model and approach to their clients.
2020 Grant Recipients Gendered Financial Inclusion: A Mixed-Method Study of Financial Education in Colombia (Laura Doering) Gender Stereotypes and Entrepreneur Financing (Camille Herbert) STEM Aspirations and Pathways for Girls in Japan (Rie Kijima)
Trust and Inclusion in Organizational Life (Ryann Manning) The Intersectional Effects of Gender and Race on Professor Pay (Phanikiran Radhakrishnan, Megan Frederickson, Soo Min Toh, & Kate Kirby) The Cases for Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives (Patrick Rooney)
STEM Aspirations and Pathways for Girls in Japan Countries around the world have struggled to implement education policies to encourage more female students to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). This has resulted in a persistent and sizeable gender gap in academic subjects such as secondary-level mathematics, in countries like Japan. This study evaluates the influences of a design thinking workshop with an aim to increase students’ self-efficacy and motivation to pursue STEM. This study seeks to understand how this innovative educational intervention altered the Japanese middle and high school female students’ aspirations and goals related to STEM.
Creating New Insights
An Exploration of the Factors Affecting Gender Earnings Gaps in the Absence of Wage Discrimination (Dionne Pohler & Shannon Potter)
Creating New Insights convened leading research scholars
Since we launched in 2016, GATE has funded:
31academic research projects, supporting 53 researchers and representing $211,500 in grant funds awarded
Click here to learn more about our Research Grant recipients
To date GATE-funded research has resulted in: 97 academic and public
8 working papers 8 published papers
Statistical Discrimination and the Rationalization of Stereotypes
RESEARCH
Click here to read a GATE-funded paper by 2019-2020 grant recipient and GATE faculty research fellow, András Tilcsik.
Creating New Insights
presentations
Creating New Insights convened leading research scholars
1 Virtual Research Roundtable, 6 sessions with 157 participants
Click here to watch a summary of the six-week workshop including a look into future research areas.
Closing Panel: The Future Research Agenda for Gender & Entrepreneurship
Zulema Valdez, Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty and Professor of Sociology, UC Merced, speaking at the Online Workshop on Gender, Race and Entrepreneurship
Debates and controversies in understanding gender, race and entrepreneurship
Workshop made possible by the support of the Government of Canada’s Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH).
Entrepreneurship is a key path to job creation and economic growth in the modern economy, yet women and minorities remain underrepresented. Research to date has documented some “supply side” factors showing that women and/or minorities are less likely to enter entrepreneurship and some “demand side” factors highlighting the struggle these entrepreneurs face in getting funding and other resources. Click here to read the full research overview.
Creating New Insights
“The gender obstacles are not the same as the race obstacles. They play out differently, so when they are fused, they have this added value that we can’t capture when we look at them separately in a model.”
Training Leaders inspired new ways of thinking
5 MBA students appointed as GATE MBA Student Fellows
Click here to watch a video summary of our 2019-2020 MBA Student Fellow reports.
2020-21 MBA Fellows MBA Fellows receive a $10,000 award to work on a research project of their choosing related to the mandate of GATE.
Hashir Beg
Laura Chavira Razo
Chantal Chizea
Aishwarya Nikam
Applying a gender lens to infrastructure development: lessons from the field
COVID-19, working families and the distribution of household and familial responsibilities during the pandemic
Disrupting silence in response to discrimination
The impact of COVID-19 on women entrepreneurs in Nigeria
Exploring experiences of performative allyship and their implications
Training Leaders
Stephen Akinwale
Training Leaders inspired new ways of thinking
5 students joined as GATE’s first MBA Student Interns
“Little did I know when I accepted the
internship offer at the Institute for Gender and the Economy in May 2020, it would be an experience that would change my understanding of diversity forever! But as
I deep-dived into my research I was thrilled to know the depth of analysis that is being done by scholars, professors, and students within and outside GATE all over the world. What a summer it has been; talking to CEOs, CIOs and founders of such excellent companies across the world. It was not just about gaining the knowledge but gaining a perspective, a diversity lens, that will stay with me wherever I go.” Sonal Gupta, GATE Intern, Summer 2020
Bashir Chalabi
Sonal Gupta
Victoria Sahagian
Stephanie Taylor
Our 5 interns wrote compelling cases exploring how organizations tackle the toughest challenges related to gender, diversity and inclusion. Companies profiled include: AccessNow — Leveraging crowdsourcing and technology to build a more accessible world Backstage Capital — Promoting Black women founders in a volatile venture capital industry Boxed — Eliminating the pink tax and differentiating through social responsibility Cheekbone Beauty — Centering sustainability in a consumption-based industry Cheerio Japan — Building a Japanese model for corporate allyship through LGBTQ inclusion Ellevest — Innovating to meet the needs of under-served women investors Fenty Beauty — Disrupting the beauty industry with a diversity-based business model Gillette — A study in the benefits and backlash of socially conscious marketing Portfolia — Reimagining venture capital through a collaborative educational model SheNative — Using the teachings of Indigenous Nationhood to empower and elevate Indigenous women The Gist — Creating a new voice to upend bias in sports media The Moment — Changing gendered dynamics of power through a holacracy management structure Walmart — Supporting women-owned businesses by integrating them into the value chain Wattpad — Using data and transparency to build the most diverse and inclusive team in tech YWCA Canada — Taking an intersectional response to the disruption caused by COVID-19
Training Leaders
Ana Baseio
Training Leaders inspired new ways of thinking
Launched the 5-course Gender Analytics specialization on Coursera
Want to earn your Gender Analytics Certificate? Click here to learn more. Developed with financial support from:
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Brilliant foundation to learn more about the key concepts in Gender Analytics, diversity, equality and inclusion. Engaging instructors and great examples. Very inspiring!”
Reached 5 continents in one week
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Gender Analytics will allow practitioners to anticipate, understand and use gender-based insights to design more inclusive product, service and policy innovations and organizations.” Sarah Kaplan, Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy
With over 1,200 learners in the first two months!
Training Leaders
Gender Analytics Learner
Training Leaders inspired new ways of thinking
Hosted 2 diversity and inclusion design sprints with 80 students Capital Markets Design Sprint — Building on the Women in Capital Markets report “The Equity Equation” 11 teams from across Canada proposed new strategies to address existing deficiencies in a mock company’s current equity strategy.
The Winning team: The Spectrum The Spectrum proposed a 3-year strategic plan to implement a transparent and inclusive hiring and promotion process, leveraging senior management and utilizing external D&I experts and AI technology.
Redesign: Working Families: A design sprint co-hosted by student clubs WIMA and WiMen In this event sponsored by Procter & Gamble, 5 teams sought to answer the question: how might organizations in 2020 support their stakeholders (employees, customers, and clients) to manage both career development and familial responsibilities?
Winning team The Flintstones identified a specific pain point that a lot of working parents struggle with: fitting kids’ extracurricular activities into their busy work schedules. The Flintstones designed Dasharoo, a specialized door-to-door transportation service for after school programs. The service would aim to help parents save time from school pickups and drop-offs and be more productive during after-school hours.
Training Leaders
The Winning team: The Flintstones
Shaping Practice changed the conversation New in 2020:
10 Research Briefs 6
Policy Briefs
Sarah Kaplan and Carmina Ravanera write for Policy Options on an equitable recovery for women.
The starting point for an equitable recovery must be childcare. It has always been the linchpin for women’s economic inclusion, and is even more essential for recovery from the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. Women cannot return to work unless childcare is affordable and safe while also paying a living wage to care workers.
17 Articles for Practitioners 3
Explainers
15 Videos 15 Event Recaps
Policy Options September 23, 2020
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Tech companies have had no restrictions. They need to let human rights and civil rights define the limitations of their designs and bring other people into the conversation.”
Click here to read our event recap and watch Kantayya discuss AI accountability and its impact on democracy.
Shaping Practice
Coded Bias Director, Shalini Kantayya, on “Artificial Intelligence and Bias”
Shaping Practice informed Canada’s COVID-19 recovery Feminist Economic Recovery Partnering with YWCA Canada, GATE created an 8-pillar plan to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The outcome of the pandemic could literally be the undoing of everything we’ve done over the last three decades.” Sarah Kaplan, Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy, quoted in Bloomberg
Our Feminist Economic Recovery Plan received international exposure. Click on an icon below to read one of just a few examples of our report coverage.
VICE World News, December 1, 2020
The economy won’t heal till women are back at work
The Globe, September 24, 2020
We can’t build back better without economic justice for racialized women Corporate Knights, July 28, 2020
‘It took a pandemic for the country to see what was already broken.’ New report offers economic recovery plan with feminist spin The Star, July 28, 2020
Shaping Practice
Justin Trudeau Has Promised a Feminist Economic Recovery. So Where’s the Plan?
Shaping Practice changed the conversation
55 tv, radio, and print media in 39 outlets
Banishing Occupational Stereotypes
Joyce He, GATE PhD Fellow, Sonia Kang, GATE Faculty Research Fellow, Soo Min Toh and Kaylie Tse in Forbes India, August 2020
Shaping Practice
The stereotypes people hold of individuals carry over into the world of work, with significant implications for vocational choice, recruitment and selection. By understanding the structure of occupational stereotypes and their interaction with demographic stereotypes, we have shown how seemingly innocuous stereotypes have important implications for occupational segregation”.
Shaping Practice changed the conversation
15 panels, lectures, and events with over 4,600 attendees
Click here to watch our event recap from Experts Discuss “Towards a Feminist City (II): Gender and Diversity in the City Building Industry”
Click here to watch our event recap from Lauren Duca on “How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics”
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I’m really excited about the idea of leveraging gender diversity to bring innovation into business practices and strategies.”
Click here to read Transitioning Employers: A survey of policies and practices for trans inclusive workplaces
LIVESTREAM
In 2020 we pivoted our events to a livestream format and were met with great success! Our lineup of talks continues to impress and challenge.
Join us in Spring/Fall 2021 for our Gender Analytics: Possibilities Event Series. Click here to check our upcoming events.
Shaping Practice
Kai Scott, President, TransFocus Consulting, speaking at the Transitioning Employers Report Livestream Launch Event
Building Community deepened partnerships Industry Partners to co-create insights
Industry partners are a select group of organizations that are front-runners in creating, leading, and managing change.
Power Circle to disrupt norms
$25,000 or more to support GATE in making disruptive change to promote gender equality.
Sarah Kaplan (Distinguished Professor of Gender & the Economy) Jonathan A. Lister (B.A. ‘94, MBA ‘00) Kevin A. Lobo (MBA ‘95) Kerrie MacPherson (B.Comm ‘86, MBA ‘91) Anita McGahan (George E. Connell Chair in Organizations & Society) Barry McInerney (B.Comm ‘85, MBA ‘87) Rose McInerney (B.A. ‘86, B.Ed 88) Hilary Partner (MBA ’18)
Building Community
Molline Green (MBA ‘98)
Building Community deepened partnerships Individual Sponsors to embrace change
Individual supporters are passionate about creating, leading, and managing change.
Sarah Albo (MBA ’18) Hugh J. Arnold Craig Barlow Andrea Vasquez Camargo Heather Campbell (MBA ’19) Anna Y. Chau (MBA ’17) Jillian E. Darroch Chown (MBA ’06, PhD ’16) Darlene E. Clover (BA ’94, PhD ’99) The Evangelist Family Kimberely Fletcher Delee Fromm Verónica Hernandez Herrera (MBA ’19) Farah Huq Vanessa Serra Iarocci Celeste Jalbert (MBA ’17) Dilek Karaso (MBA ’20) Dolores Keating-Mallen
Bonnie Gar-Kay Lam Jennifer Lancaster and Blaine Padgett Ruth Mandel - WHO GIVES Fund 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) Stacy Zosky Anonymous
What Your Support Means to Us:
Every contribution counts You can sponsor our student fellowships, policy briefs, digital storytelling, faculty fellowships, research grants and more!
If you would like to make a donation or have questions about how you can support GATE’s mission to change the conversation, please contact Lindsay Manning, Director of Development at: Lindsay.Manning@Rotman.UToronto.ca
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Building Community
GATE is committed to delivering game-changing research to help us build back better — but we can’t do it without contributions from GATE supporters like you!
Building Community grew our networks Partners
to advance research With our Community and Academic Partnerships, we will continue to advance rigourous research.
Digital Engagement
In 2020, during a global pandemic, we saw major growth of our digital community
+69%
LinkedIn followers
Twitter followers
+173% YouTube subscribers
+25% Website visits
Top Tweet — Launch of Feminist Recovery Plan July 28, 2020
Most watched video — What is a deficit? July 14, 2020
Most engaged post — Primer on the gendered impacts of COVID-19 April 1, 2020
+69% Newsletter subscriptions
Building Community
+35%
Who We Are “We can build back better from this crisis by making equity a central pillar of recovery, and all sectors should contribute”.
Sarah Kaplan
Alyson Colón
Director
Associate Director
Carmina Ravanera
Omid Razavi
Research Associate
Digital Communications Officer
Carmina Ravanera writing for Corporate Knights
Meet the GATE team Nouman Ashraf
Faculty Teaching Fellow
Daphne Baldassari
Kim de Laat
PhD Research Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2020)
Joyce He
Fauzia Husain
PhD Research Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2021)
Nico Lacetera
Hyeun Lee
Maja Djikic
Chanel Grenaway
Faculty Teaching Fellow
Advisor; Instructor
Vanessa Serra Iarocci
Sonia K. Kang
Executive-in-Residence; Instructor
Faculty Research Fellow
Lechin Lu
Faculty Research Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022)
Project Lead, Gender Analytics
Lindsay Manning
Dionne Pohler
Nika Stelman
Director of Development (Rotman Advancement)
Faculty Research Fellow
Alumna-in-Residence; Instructor
Kira Lussier Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2020)
András Tilcsik
Faculty Research Fellow
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