ANNUAL REPORT
2022
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 1
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2022 IN REVIEW
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Our Four Pillars Creating New Insights Training Leaders Shaping Practice Building Community
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Our Mission 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.
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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
$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)
Racial group labels such as “BIPOC” (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), “underrepresented minorities,” and “visible minorities” are widely
The Role of Gender in Knowledge Contribution and Patenting (Manuela Collis)
used by companies, governments, policy makers, and in the popular media.
Gender Discrimination in Remote and On-Site Work: A Survey of Managers’ Perceptions (Laura Doering)
Yet, there is a lack of consensus around which labels are most inclusive and
Strengthening the Investment Case for Action on Gender-Based Violence and Child Maltreatment in Canada (Beverley Essue & Sujata Mishra)
in the United States and Canada to investigate perceptions and attitudes
“correct.” This project will survey large, nationally representative samples
Creating New Insights
5 new grants for a total
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
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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
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Dr. Hyeun Lee
Dr. Victor Marsh
Dr. Angie Min Ah Park
Dr. Lucienne Talba
Dr. Kourtney Koebel
Dr. Camellia Bryan (starting January 2023)
Creating New Insights
We fund emerging scholars working on topics that are central to GATE’s mission.
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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.
as GATE MBA Fellows
Meet our 2021-22 MBA Fellows
Yinzi Gao
Christopher Hand
Dotun Ogunlela
Pritika Poddar
Mauricio Sanchez Ramirez
The experience of immigrant woman lawyers
Understanding what it means to be gender nonconforming
Workplace challenges faced by new mothers
The gender gap in investing
Gender bias in consumer advertising
Training Leaders
5 Rotman students appointed
Rewind Watch a video summary of our 2021-2022 MBA Fellow projects.
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Training Leaders
Meet a GATE Fellow
inspired new ways of thinking
PhD Fellow
We’re proud to support a diverse and talented group of early-career researchers in their cuttingedge research on how intersectional gender-based insights can lead to innovative interventions to achieve equality.
Learn more about our Fellows
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Grusha Agarwal
Daphné Baldassari
Manuela Collis
Laura Lam
Examining labels for underrepresented minorities
Studying structural interventions to increase diversity
Exploring the role of gender in innovation and patenting
Studying immigrant women’s use of technology platforms
Training Leaders
GATE PhD 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 14
Training Leaders inspired new ways of thinking
GATE designed a gamification platform where students compete and collect points, earn badges, and gain a Gender and Equity Champion certificate.
Our Gender Analytics Coursera 5-course series has 14,000+ learners worldwide. GATE's Gender Analytics Competency Framework has informed WAGE's technical criteria for assessing GenderBased Analysis Plus (GBA+) competencies in the government.
Learn more at GenderAnalytics.org
Fascinating case studies and interviews! I truly loved this course.
Training Leaders
170 MBA students registered
GENDER ANALYTICS
“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 15
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Shaping Practice
In 2022, we kept a hybrid format for our events
changed the conversation
18 Podcast episodes 13 Videos 11 Public events
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Articles for practitioners
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Research overviews
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.
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Shaping Practice
GATE’s 2022 in highlights
Let’s turn the corporate ladder into a corporate ramp. Tim Rose, Senior Consultant, Accessibility, Client Experience team, CIBC, speaking on accessibility initiatives in the work place.
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Shaping Practice
Read our report
Care Work in the Recovery Economy
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Watch the highlights from our research roundtable on the future of the care economy
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Shaping Practice
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
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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.
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Read our report on the future of equitable work
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Shaping Practice changed the conversation
“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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Shaping Practice
47 Features in TV, radio, and print media
Workers feel corporate COVID-19 equity policies ‘not genuine,’ study says
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Shaping Practice policy impact
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
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
Watch the full testimony
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Record employment rate for women shows Trudeau’s subsidized daycare plan is working
NEWS
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Shaping Practice Changed the conversation
11 events with 2,129 attendees Jacqueline Quinless on “Decolonizing Data”
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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.
Tina Opie on “Shared Sisterhood: Collective Action for Racial & Gender Equality at Work”
Shaping Practice
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.
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”
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Shaping Practice Changed the conversation
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.
Shaping Practice
Creating podcasts on the most hotly debated topics about gender and the economy
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Building Community deepened partnerships
to co-create insights
Industry partners are a select group of organizations that are front-runners in creating, leading, and managing change.
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Partners to advance research With our Community, Academic and Government partnerships, we will continue to advance research and policy impact. 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.
Building Community
Industry Partners
grew our network
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Building Community deepened partnerships
Individual supporters are passionate about creating, leading, and managing change.
The Mark S. Bonham Charitable Foundation Molline Green (MBA ’98) 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) Stacy Zosky Anonymous
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) Barry McInerney (B.Comm ’85, MBA ’87)
Building Community
to embrace change
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to disrupt norms
Power Circle members pledge $50,000 or more to support GATE in making disruptive change to promote gender equality.
Individual Supporters
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 Dr. Wei He (PhD ’01) Rocca Morra Hodge Verónica Hernandez Herrera (MBA ’19) Janet Hudgins Farah Huq Celeste Jalbert (MBA ’17)
Power Circle
Rosemary McInerney (B.A. ’86, B.Ed 88) Florence S. Narine (MBA ‘05) Hilary Partner (MBA ’18)
Click here to learn more about supporting GATE
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Building Community
What Your Support Means to Us
grew our networks
After 5 years as a startup, GATE moves into a new era with a $10 million fundraising goal.
Digital Engagement
Newsletter audience
14,297
+14%
YouTube subscribers
403
+33%
Podcast Listeners
1,126
+87%
Gender Analytic learners
14,276
+154%
You can sponsor our student fellowships, policy briefs, digital storytelling, faculty fellowships, research grants and more!
Every contribution counts
+4% 88,470 Website visits
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+55%
Twitter followers
LinkedIn followers
naviGATE users
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Building Community
Through our various projects, GATE has achieved a global reach and witnessed the growth of our community, near and far.
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.
If you are considering making a major gift to support GATE’s mission, please contact Lindsay Manning, Director of Development at: Lindsay.Manning@Rotman.Utoronto.ca Donate to support GATE: uoft.me/support-gate
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Who We Are “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.”
Meet the GATE team
Sarah Kaplan
Lechin Lu
Director
Associate Director
Grusha Agarwal
Nouman Ashraf
PhD Fellow
Faculty Teaching Fellow
Camellia Bryan Postdoctoral Fellow
Vanessa Serra Iarocci
Sonia K. Kang
Kate Bezanson
Daphne Baldassari
Manuela Collis
Maja Djikic
Chanel Grenaway
PhD Fellow
Faculty Teaching Fellow
Advisor; Instructor
Faculty Research Fellow, on leave
PhD Fellow
Faculty Research Fellow
Faculty Teaching Fellow
Yongah Kim
Kourtney Koebel
Nicola Lacetera
Laura Lam
Hyeun Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
Victor Marsh
PhD Fellow
Lindsay Manning
Angie Min Ah Park
Dionne Pohler
Nika Stelman
Executive-in-Residence; Instructor
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lechin Lu, Associate Director Faculty Research Fellow
Director of Development (Rotman Advancement)
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Carmina Ravanera
Salwa Iqbal
Senior Research Associate
Digital Communications Officer
Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty Research Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alumna-in-Residence; Instructor
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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