We often hear that workplaces are meritocratic. But if that was true, would white women and people of color still be earning so much less than men? Would those board rooms be quite so male? Sarah Kaplan speaks to the National Organization for Women’s Feminism Now podcast about how the notion of meritocracy is a tool of the patriarchy, justifying bias towards the people in positions of privilege and harming the careers of people who have not had this same wind at their back.

Sarah Kaplan speaks with Google Exec Stephanie Wong for the In Real Life podcast about what we really know about workplace equality. You’ll be in for some surprises.

For decades the ‘glass ceiling’ dominated conversations about the lack of women in executive roles. But there’s growing recognition of significant gaps at the earlier stages of women’s careers. Women often stall at the entry level. For every 100 men promoted to manager, there are only 72 women, and the situation is worse for women of colour, the report found. On June 18, The Globe and Mail hosted a webcast examining how progressive organizations and thought leaders are reassessing who gets hired and promoted at work.

The labour market never started off level for women and men. Women have and continue to be clustered in the “5Cs”: cleaning, catering, cashiering, clerical and caring. Dr. Sarah Kaplan, Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE), talks to Level the Paying Field host Kadie Ward, Commissioner and CAO of Ontario's Pay Equity Commission, about gender’s role in today’s labour market, and whether we are moving to a meritocracy.

What role should the office play, and can companies create equitable and sustainable work from home (remote work) policies that work for all employees? Rotman's Sarah Kaplan and Carmina Ravanera weigh in on the future of hybrid work for the Executive Summary podcast.

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Say Hi to the Future podcast about how research can change the conversation on gender equality and how we can turn anger into hope for gender equality and women’s advancement in leadership.

Canadian women face an uncomfortable truth: they generally make less money than their male counterparts. And yet there’s no shortage of financial planning advice focused on how women can manage their personal expenses, invest in their future, and navigate the impact of major life events, including motherhood, that might uniquely affect their career progression. The Globe and Mail invited a group of female leaders to discuss how organizations can help women bridge the gap between personal responsibility for their wallets, and systemic inequity in levels of compensation.

In this episode of #ChamberBreakers, Lianna Brinded, director at Yahoo, and Xavier White, CSR and innovation marketing manager for Verizon Business, speak to professor Sarah Kaplan, director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. Kaplan coined the term “gender capitalism” to describe how today’s capitalist economic system is defined by the dominant gender — white cisgender males — in everything from policy making, to product and service design, and allocation of capital.

Pandemics touch every aspect of society. This seminar addresses two important topics in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic: Workplace Inequality and Remote Work. Workplace inequality is pervasive. For example, it is well established that women face greater barriers for career progression compared to men. In this seminar, Sarah Kaplan (U. of Toronto) discusses how the pandemic has differentially affected women’s vs. men’s career opportunities, as well as how it has adversely affected marginalized minority groups. How can scholars use the pandemic to better understand the drivers of workplace inequality?

For the Globe and Mail, Sarah Kaplan, Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy at University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, discusses the gender Power Gap in leadership, its consequences, and one way to start to close the gap.

When it comes to the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, all things are not created equal. By all accounts, women’s finances and career growth have been disproportionately affected. The lion’s share of domestic responsibilities — taking care of children, helping with virtual school, looking after ailing family members — has also fallen to women. TVO.org speaks with Sarah Kaplan about the so-called she-cession, how women can guard against losing their hard-won place in the workforce — and how the pandemic could create meaningful change.

Women of Influence spoke with Sarah Kaplan, Founder and Director of GATE, to get her take on why it’s important to look at COVID with an intersectional gendered lens, where we are headed with respect to gender equality, and what we can be doing to build a more inclusive future.