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.

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.

This episode of the Oxford Policy Pod discusses the economic challenges and opportunities facing women all over the world. The economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic displaced millions of women from the global labour force and unraveled several decades of progress in closing economic gender gaps. Governments around the world will need to prioritize gender-based policymaking in the years ahead in order to regain this lost ground and achieve true gender equality. This episode takes a look at key elements of gender-based economic policymaking alongside two experts in the field, Dr. Sarah Kaplan and Sanchita Mitra.

New data from Ontario's biggest hospital corporations reveals barriers to leadership roles for women in the medical field. At the physician level, female surgeons earn 24 per cent less in hourly wages than their male counterparts. Steve Paikin on TVO’s The Agenda explores the gender power gap in medicine with general surgeon and researcher Dr. Fahima Dossa; investigative journalist Robyn Doolittle; and economist Sarah Kaplan.

New legislation about gendered pay inequity will go into force on August 31, 2021. But there are still those who say that a gender pay gap doesn't exist in Canada at all. The Canadian Women’s Foundation podcast Alright, Now What? was joined by Dr. Sarah Kaplan, Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy and Distinguished Professor of Gender and the Economy and Professor of Strategic Management at Rotman. She addresses what the gender pay gap really is and what needs to happen to end it.

This Research2Reality interview asks the question: Can innovation change the conversation on gender equality Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Gender and the Economy — Rotman believe that it can. Director Sarah Kaplan works to dispel myths and provide new angles to tackle gaps in gender equality.

Despite decades of effort, our path to gender equality has been littered with roadblocks. One of the most prominent is the notion that any deliberate effort to promote greater diversity will undermine our meritocratic system. This is the excuse given by boards of directors when they explain why they don’t have women on their boards. In this talk for U of T in Your Neighborhood, Kaplan draws on cutting-edge research to bring a fresh perspective to this conversation. Showing that these arguments are based on false premises, she explains how our systems of education, recruiting, and promotion are often unmeritocratic because, due to unconscious bias, the contributions of women and people of color are devalued. But, she argues, training in unconscious bias isn’t the solution. Indeed, it can often lead to backlash. Instead, she reveals what does work.

It may be 2017, but it’s still the case that Canadian women earn less than men, between 74 to 88 cents on the dollar, compared to men according to Statistics Canada. Canada’s ranking by the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index came in this year as just 35th out of 144 countries. Our guest Sarah Kaplan will explain how gender affects economic outcomes.