‘It took a pandemic for the country to see what was already broken.’
This Toronto Star piece highlights GATE and the YWCA's Feminist Economic Recovery Plan, paying special attention to the toll exacted on the millions of those already marginalized.
Boosting marginalized groups key to ‘feminist economic recovery,’ report says
Sarah Kaplan on how Canadians cannot expect the economy to fully recover from COVID-19 without helping those most affected by the downturn.
We can’t build back better without economic justice for racialized women
GATE's Carmina Ravanera alongside the YWCA Canada's Anjum Sultana write for Corporate Knights to discuss the release of our collaborative Feminist Economic Recovery Plan and how it must call for more equitable workplace policies and support for BIPOC-led businesses.
Care services are key to pandemic recovery for women
GATE's Sarah Kaplan and Maya Roy of the YWCA write an op-ed for the Toronto Star, ahead of the release of a Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for Canada.
A Feminist Action Plan for the Economic Recovery
Maya Roy, CEO of YWCA Canada, and Sarah Kaplan discuss their organizations' collaborative action plan: A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for Canada, on CBC's Here and Now Toronto with Gill Deacon.
Why are there still so few Black lawyers on Bay Street?
Revisiting GATE-funded researcher Hadiya Roderique's piece, Black on Bay Street, The Globe and Mail continues the conversation on the need for greater diversity in the legal community and features, Sonia Kang's research on resume whitening.
Les inégalités pour les femmes en temps de crise
GATE PhD Fellow, Daphné Baldassari, discusses how the pandemic is affecting more women than men economically especially around the issues of childcare and school closings, on Radio Canada's L'heure de pointe.
How To Teach Your Kids To Use Inclusive Language
GATE's digital storyteller, Omid Razavi, discusses the importance of introducing inclusive language in the household for this PARENTS Canada feature.
Want a diverse workplace? Rethink the entire system, experts say
GATE's Sonia Kang is featured in this CTV perspective piece, as she discusses the importance of going beyond implicit bias training in order to teach people how to stop unconscious racist or sexist behaviour.
Building Back Better After the Pandemic
IEDP features a webinar with Sarah Kaplan and Soo Min Toh on how organizations can build back, not as normal, but better than before, from Rotman’s series ‘Managing Uncertainty: Adapting to and learning from the COVID-19 crisis’.