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New teaching resources from the University of Toronto's Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE)

  • 1.  New teaching resources from the University of Toronto's Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE)

    Posted 06-21-2021 16:09

    Colleagues,

    One objective of the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) is to bring you useful resources for teaching at undergraduate, graduate and executive levels. We have just launched a whole set of new materials, including many new teaching cases.

    GATE's teaching cases:

    https://www.gendereconomy.org/education/case-studies/

    1. Backstage Capital: Investing in Black Women Founders (VC, entrepreneurship, diversity, LGBTQ)
    2. SheNative: Fostering community and supporting Indigenous Women (social enterprise, Indigenous entrepreneurs)
    3. Ellevest: Investment technologies for Women (finance, entrepreneurship, AI, gender-based analysis)
    4. AccessNow: the app creating a more accessible world (disability, entrepreneurship, design thinking)
    5. How Portfolia empowers women investors to fund innovative companies (VC, investing, entrepreneurship)
    6. The work of trans inclusion: A case study of Amazon's Trans-Affirmative Action Program (diversity and inclusion, media, LGBTQ+, organizational change)
    7. YWCA Canada's response to COVID-19 (social enterprise, COVID, non profit, organizational change)
    8. Cheekbone Beauty: A social enterprise making a difference for Indigenous youth (CPG, social enterprise, Indigenous entrepreneurs)
    9. Wattpad's commitment to diversity (HR, diversity and inclusion, startup, gender-based analysis)
    10. How Walmart helped women-owned businesses (CSR, supply chain, diversity and inclusion)
    11. Fenty Beauty's diversity-based business model (marketing, entrepreneurship, CPG)
    12. The GIST challenges gender inequality in sports media (diversity and inclusion, sports business, media)
    13. Rethink Pink: Elimination of pink tax by online retailer Boxed (marketing, CSR, retail)
    14. LGBTQ+ inclusion opens new markets for Cheerio Corporation Co in Japan (CPG, LGBTQ+, marketing, Japan)
    15. The Moment and the gendered impact of its adoption of holocracy (organizational design, leadership, diversity and inclusion)
    16. "The best a man can be": Gillette and toxic masculinity (marketing, CPG, masculinity)
    17. Gender-based analysis as a turnaround strategy at McCarthy Uniforms (Small-Medium enterprise, turnaround strategy, gender-based analysis, CSR)
    18. Capital Markets: Why so few women? (finance, diversity and inclusion, leadership, careers)
    19. Doing gender analysis: A case study of Root Capital's Women in Agriculture Initiative (gender-based analysis, social enterprise, Latin America)

    (Note that there are no teaching notes yet, but if you teach the case, we'd love it if you would share your teaching notes).

    Other GATE resources:

    Our explainers on bias and stereotypes, care work, the gendered impact of COVID, diversity and inclusion training, gender and entrepreneurship, gender-based violence, the gender wage gap, masculinity, parental leave, quotas, women in STEM and work-life balance.

    https://www.gendereconomy.org/explainers/

    Multimedia (videos and podcasts) resources to provide deeper insight on issues such as the gender power gap, careers, the gendered impact of the pandemic, how we can think about building back better, etc.

    https://www.gendereconomy.org/education/multimedia-resources/

    Research briefs summarizing academic papers in 2-page readable formats: including topic such as entrepreneurship, investing, masculinity, women in STEM, quotas, diversity and inclusion, leadership, venture capital, femtech, work-life balance, careers, gender identity, the gig economy, etc.

    https://www.gendereconomy.org/research-briefs/

    Articles for practitioners on key topics such as Gender Analytics, carework, women's entrepreneurship, the business case for diversity, the motherhood penalty, economic development, meritocracy, resumé whitening, investing with a gender lens, etc.

    https://www.gendereconomy.org/articles-for-practitioners/

    Our online specialization on Gender Analytics including courses on Gender Analytics for Inclusive Innovation, Inclusive Analytic Techniques, Human-Centred Design for Inclusive Innovation, and Transformational Leadership for Inclusive Innovation.

    https://www.coursera.org/specializations/gender-analytics

    We hope you find these useful!

    Best,

    Sarah

    Sarah Kaplan (she/her/hers)| Distinguished Professor

    Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE)

    Rotman School of Management | University of Toronto 

    s.kaplan@utoronto.ca | www.sarahkaplan.info

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