The Gender at Work Podcast

Feb 26 2024 35 ep. 42 mins 197

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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 28: Are Feminist Foreign Policies Actually Feminist?

Feb 26 2024 56 mins

In this episode of the G@W podcast, we delve into Feminist Foreign Policies and look at some of the opportunities, challenges and contradictions inherent in them. We also explore some of the collective aspirations of feminists for Feminist Foreign Policies. These would be important questions to ask at any time but now they are especially important as some of the very governments th

Episode 27: Gender Apartheid – Help or Hindrance?

Nov 06 2023 55 mins

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 particularly on Iran and Afghanistan. In this episode we explore this term “gender apartheid” – where it came from and what some of the Femilemmas around it are. We look at its usefulness in addressing

Episode 26: The Femilemmas of Allyship – Voices from Beirut

Aug 01 2023 30 mins

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 a social media context heavily influenced by toxic misogynists targeting young men and boys. They reflect on the ways that, as in many parts of the world, women’s rights are under attac

Episode 25: Femilemmas Pop-Up

May 01 2023 25 mins

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 PopUp at the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York in March to hear what Femilemmas were on the minds of participants there. In this episode we share a few - Ann

Next Season Teaser - Femilemmas

Mar 08 2023 4 mins

In this teaser, Aruna and Joanne bring up the theme of their upcoming season: Feminist dilemmas, or, as they refer to it, Femilemmas.

Episode 24: Leadership Transitions, Feminist Dilemmas, Soft Winds and the Roses

Feb 20 2023 68 mins

G@W has a new Executive Director - madeleine kennedy-macfoy. Welcome madeleine! In this episode, we introduce madeleine and invite the past EDs of Gender at Work to think about what the opportunity and challenge mix has been over the decades at G@W and what learnings and dilemmas they have to share with Madeleine as she steps in. We build on a theme that we’ve explored over the

Episode 23: Emergent Strategies to Support Cultures of Repair and Care

Dec 21 2022 55 mins

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 practices that undermine feminist collective action, and prioritize care, connection and thriving? In this episode, we talk to Michal Friedman, a longtime associate of G@W, a feminist activist and a per

Episode 22: Feminist Reckonings or Feminist Wrecking Balls?

Aug 09 2022 54 mins

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 the heels of the #Me Too movement, the flashmobs inspired by the “El Violador Eres Tu!” movement, and the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd, we started to witness staff

Episode 21: Are Feminist Leadership Transitions Feminist?

Mar 31 2022 68 mins

We just completed the seminal month for women’s rights globally – worldwide celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8th, innumerable events worldwide for Women’s History month in the United States, and the 66th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) recently concluded. Women’s rights and feminist organizations and movements are the drivers of change for gend

Episode 20: Feminist Leadership Transitions

Jan 13 2022 70 mins

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 focus first on how leadership transitions happen and what happens to the leaders who choose to leave. There is a generational shift in leadership of feminist organizations around the world