Podcasts by The Gender at Work Podcast
The Gender at Work Podcast is a bi-monthly podcast series, featuring diverse voices from Gender at Work’s international network of feminist scholars, activists, and community-led development practitioners. In our informal conversations, we discuss merging ideas, issues and trends in Gender and Development that help us to find new ways of understanding our work, our institutions, our society and ambitiously, ourselves! By coming together in this new space, we seek to re-examine the resilience of patriarchy and assess the willingness and resistance of organizations and communities to create cultures of equality. We aim to amplify voices crucial in this transformative process of cultivating promising alternatives for a feminist future.
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Episode 27: Gender Apartheid – Help or Hindrance? from 2023-11-06T20:14
Many feminists around the world believe that there is a war on against women and some are calling it “gender apartheid”. The global campaign to end gender apartheid focuses par...
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Episode 26: The Femilemmas of Allyship – Voices from Beirut from 2023-08-01T17:29:21
In this episode, three graduate students from the American University of Beirut, Maria Hamarneh, Elvira Abi Zeid and Leil Younes, question male allyship for women’s rights and feminist values in...
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Episode 25: Femilemmas Pop-Up from 2023-05-01T19:28:47
Femilemmas about gender identities, about who is a feminist, about inconsistencies when government leaders claim feminist mantles and so on, have been percolating for years. We held a Femilemmas...
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Next Season Teaser - Femilemmas from 2023-03-08T17:40:31
In this teaser, Aruna and Joanne bring up the theme of their upcoming season: Feminist dilemmas, or, as they refer to it, Femilemmas.
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Episode 24: Leadership Transitions, Feminist Dilemmas, Soft Winds and the Roses from 2023-02-20T17:54:59
G@W has a new Executive Director - madeleine kennedy-macfoy. Welcome madeleine!
In this episode, we introduce madeleine and invite the past EDs of Ge...
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Episode 23: Emergent Strategies to Support Cultures of Repair and Care from 2022-12-21T16:05:27
How do feminist organizations get beyond ‘calling out’ to repair and care? What can we learn from feminist leaders who are experimenting with strategies to build trust, reverse practi...
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Episode 22: Feminist Reckonings or Feminist Wrecking Balls? from 2022-08-09T13:01:47
What is driving the growing numbers of implosions that many social justice groups around the world – including feminist organizations and networks -- are experiencing? Coming on...
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Episode 21: Are Feminist Leadership Transitions Feminist? from 2022-03-31T12:19:32
We just completed the seminal month for women’s rights globally – worldwide celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8th, innumerable events wor...
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Episode 20: Feminist Leadership Transitions from 2022-01-13T18:05:42
In our last episode we talked about the challenges of dismantling patriarchy and promised that our next episode would start to unpack different strategies to topple patriarchy. We have chosen to...
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Episode 19: Caring in a Post Covid World from 2021-10-01T15:38:15
In a passionate and wide-ranging conversation, Kumi Naidoo and Aruna Rao explore hope, fear, Black Lives Matter, feminist principles, intersectionality and structural change. They ask whether th...
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Episode 18: Dismantling Patriarchy – Close Encounters and Imperfect Strategies from 2021-08-11T14:29:28
Look around you and you’ll find many conversations about reimagining and transforming how we live and work – from how we enable the plant to thrive, to new ways of envisioning economics. And in ...
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Episode 17: Intergenerational Conversations on Organizing for Gender Equality from 2021-06-25T13:37:56
On the eve of the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) in Paris, Aruna Rao and Joanne Sandler – veterans of the 1995 Beijing conference – have an intergenerational talk with three young activists: Pr...
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Episode 16: Are Our Strategies Fit For Purpose? from 2021-04-28T14:39:55
Gender mainstreaming and the two-track approach to achieve gender equality were two strategies for strengthening organizations' action on gender equality that grew out of the 1995 Beijing Confer...
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Episode 15: Can the UN deliver a feminist future? from 2020-10-12T19:27:24
Can the UN Deliver a feminist future? This question is posed by Anne Marie Goetz (Professor, NYU) and Joanne Sandler (Senior Associate G@W and former Deputy ED, UN Women) in the June edition of ...
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Episode 14: Letsema - 5 years of changing community norms through dialogue from 2020-07-07T19:53:10
How do you break up violent ways of behaving and the exercise of power over? How do change what is considered normal? How do you create a new culture that values others no matter how different t...
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Episode 13: Insubordinate Leadership from 2020-03-29T16:48:39
We are living in a time, which adrienne marie brown describes as apocalyptic - a time that demands that we draw our imagination to think beyond what is politically possible, which she says is “s...
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Episode 12: Patriarchy Impeached - Is this what justice looks like? The Catherine Claxton story from 2019-11-19T23:48:33
This episode walks us through Catherine Claxton’s story, which has been assembled by G@W Senior Associate Joanne Sandler and Julie Thompson, both long time UN staffers. Catherine's lawyers...
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G@W-CREA Podcast Series, Episode 5: How can we reboot cross-movement alliance building for greater collective voice and impact? from 2019-07-22T05:00
At a time when conservative, fundamentalist and fascist forces appear to achieving political dominance, the need for progressive movements to build strong alliances a...
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G@W-CREA Podcast Series, Episode 4: How can we reimagine ideas around consent, pleasure and danger? from 2019-07-15T05:00
This episode examines why we need to reimagine prevailing ideas around consent, pleasure and danger as embedded in our laws, social norms, and feminist movement polit...
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G@W-CREA Podcast Series, Episode 3: How can we rethink language and terminology to shape new strategies, narratives and our advocacy? from 2019-07-08T05:00
Language is often the medium through which exclusion, stigma and invisibilisation of certain groups, experiences and identities is normalised and justified. Listen
G@W-CREA Podcast Series, Episode 2: How are artists, activists, and movements on the margins rethinking exclusion and inclusion in more intersectional ways? from 2019-07-04T10:26:08
Social power and injustice are often expressed and experienced through inclusion and exclusion. This episode explores what...
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G@W-CREA Podcast Series, Episode 1: How are artists, women’s rights activists and movements on the margins responding to criminalization? from 2019-06-27T12:18:06
Various narratives, social norms and political agenda underlie the criminalisation of people based on their gender identities, sexual expression, reproductive choices or occupation (such as sex ...
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Episode 11: Post Beijing from 2019-02-13T00:31:45
It’s almost 25 years since the landmark women’s conference held in Beijing in 1995. What did women achieve at Beijing and what are some of the key new and unfinished feminist agendas? In this po...
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Episode 10: Art as Activism from 2018-12-13T22:34:28
There is no greater time than now, when we are experiencing a tremendous pushback against women’s rights and women’s rights defenders, to search for new and power...
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Episode 09: Gender at Work Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations from 2018-10-01T16:00
In 2015, Gender at Work founders and podcast hosts Aruna Rao and David Kelleher, along with Gender at Work Senior Associate, Joanne Sandler and Knowledge Strategist, Carol Miller, collaborated t...
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Episode 08: The United Nations Girls' Education Initiative from 2018-06-20T09:00
Episode 07: Misconduct within Humanitarian Organizations from 2018-05-22T04:00
From Oxfam to the United Nations, allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct have rocked the humanitarian sector.
In episode 07 we speak with Hendrica Okondo, who has 20 years of experien...
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Episode 06: Toxic Masculinity and Misogyny from 2018-03-19T09:00
How do you define toxic masculinity and misogyny, and how do they contribute the violence in our socities?
That's the question we aim to answer in this episode. We spoke with Marisa Tramo...
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Episode 05: #Metoo on College Campuses from 2018-03-01T10:00
In this episode, we examine the impact the #metoo movement is making on college campuses and policies. We spoke with stu...
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Episode 04: The Story of Letsema from 2017-12-10T14:00
In this episode, we travel to the Vaal---a semi-rural area in South Africa, whose violent past still haunts it. We take a look at Letsema, an innovative community wide effort to combat gender ba...
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Episode 03: Evolutionary organizations from 2017-09-07T17:41:19
In our third episode, hosted by Aruna Rao and David Kelleher, we would like to share a discussion on Fredric Laloux’s popular book, Reinventing Organisations: A Guide to Cre...
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Episode 02: Feminist Activism and Self-care from 2017-07-18T19:40:59
“I was so busy thinking about strategy, I never thought about self-care…I was told to swallow my tears, and so many women are told this. I don’t have the space for self-care. It is impossi...
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Episode 01: Conversation on Patriarchy from 2017-07-02T17:53:51
Feminists Rethinking Transformation, the Gender at Work Book Club’s new podcast series, is part of our ongoing effort to hold intimate conversations about rethinking an...
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Episode 00: Women's March on Washington from 2017-06-12T15:32:54
Gender at Work has been active now for almost 20 years and we have made contributions to thinking and practice on challenging and changing discriminatory social norms and deep structures of ineq...
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