Beste Gender At Work podcaster (2024)

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Episode 28: Are Feminist Foreign Policies Actually Feminist? 56:21

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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 …

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Episode 27: Gender Apartheid – Help or Hindrance? 55:38

1y ago55:38

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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 …

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Episode 26: The Femilemmas of Allyship – Voices from Beirut 30:30

1+ y ago30:30

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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, …

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Episode 25: Femilemmas Pop-Up 25:30

1+ y ago25:30

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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…

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Next Season Teaser - Femilemmas 4:31

2y ago4:31

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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 1:08:19

2y ago1:08:19

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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 them…

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Episode 23: Emergent Strategies to Support Cultures of Repair and Care 55:47

2y ago55:47

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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, …

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Episode 22: Feminist Reckonings or Feminist Wrecking Balls? 54:18

2+ y ago54:18

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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, …

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Episode 21: Are Feminist Leadership Transitions Feminist? 1:08:00

2+ y ago1:08:00

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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 dr…

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Episode 20: Feminist Leadership Transitions 1:10:15

3y ago1:10:15

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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 femini…

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Episode 19: Caring in a Post Covid World 59:39

3y ago59:39

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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 the institutions that were set up to protect us, like the police, and to enable social change, such as social services, the UN, and international development …

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Episode 18: Dismantling Patriarchy – Close Encounters and Imperfect Strategies 46:55

3+ y ago46:55

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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 all kinds of organizations, we are seeing real challenges to what was previously unchecked - abusive power dynamics, toxic work environments, sexual harassm…

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Episode 17: Intergenerational Conversations on Organizing for Gender Equality 39:16

3+ y ago39:16

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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: Priya Kvam and Amani Jui from Breakthrough US and Natalia Escruceria Price, an independent consultant formerly with JASS. Our exchange with these young activi…

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Episode 16: Are Our Strategies Fit For Purpose? 27:32

3+ y ago27:32

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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 Conference on Women. Twenty-six years later, the world looks very different with multiple crises of inequality, violence against women and LGBTIQ people, climate …

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Episode 15: Can the UN deliver a feminist future? 1:15:13

4y ago1:15:13

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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 Gender and Development. Join us for a lively discussion on this question in the latest episode of the Gender at Work podcast. Anne Marie and Joanne are join…

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Episode 14: Letsema - 5 years of changing community norms through dialogue 32:42

4+ y ago32:42

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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 they are? A community in Gauteng, South Africa, supported by Gender at Work and the Labor Research Service, launched an initiative called Letsema 5 years ago…

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Episode 13: Insubordinate Leadership 55:41

5y ago55:41

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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 “simply not enough”. What does feminist leadership look like in such times? In this episode, we talk to two globally recognized, inspiring feminist warriors f…

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Episode 12: Patriarchy Impeached - Is this what justice looks like? The Catherine Claxton story 24:50

5y ago24:50

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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 -- Mary Dorman and Ellen Yaroshefsky -- recount the events that led Catherine, a junior UN staffer, to charge an Undersecretary General with sexual abuse. What u…

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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? 50:51

5+ y ago50:51

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At a time when conservative, fundamentalist and fascist forces appear to achieving political dominance, the need for progressive movements to build strong alliances and collective resistance appears paramount – yet, few such alliances are visible and sustaining cross-movement solidarity is very hard work. This episode explores why this is the case,…

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G@W-CREA Podcast Series, Episode 4: How can we reimagine ideas around consent, pleasure and danger? 1:02:36

5+ y ago1:02:36

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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 politics. The discussion explores why pleasure needs to be moved from the margins of feminist agendas to be viewed as integral to dismantling patriarchy; why the connections between pleasur…

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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? 50:56

5+ y ago50:56

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Language is often the medium through which exclusion, stigma and invisibilisation of certain groups, experiences and identities is normalised and justified. This podcast discusses whether and why language and terminology matter, how new words and frames can be created in diverse cultural contexts to claim power, presence and voice, and analyses the…

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G@W-CREA Podcast Series, Episode 2: How are artists, activists, and movements on the margins rethinking exclusion and inclusion in more intersectional ways? 39:35

5+ y ago39:35

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Social power and injustice are often expressed and experienced through inclusion and exclusion. This episode explores what constitutes inclusion or exclusion, who are the most excluded groups and identities, and how diverse constituencies are connecting to challenge their marginalisation. The role of creative people in raising awareness about exclu…

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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? 54:37

5+ y ago54:37

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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 work). This podcast explores the impacts of this approach not only on these groups, but on societies as a whole, and the nature of resistance to criminalisa…

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Episode 11: Post Beijing 32:50

6y ago32:50

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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 podcast Joanne Sandler, the former Deputy Director of Unifem and current senior associate G@W starts us off by tracing some of the intentions, magic and resul…

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Episode 10: Art as Activism 27:13

6y ago27:13

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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 powerful ways to express ourselves and advocate for change. In this episode, we meet three powerhouse artists and activists: former Ford model and philanthropist, Monica Watkins, Australian sin…

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Episode 09: Gender at Work Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations 29:54

6y ago29:54

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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 to write a book that has proven to be a must-read for feminists. Gender at Work: Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations is a culmination of four …

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Episode 08: The United Nations Girls' Education Initiative 36:58

6+ y ago36:58

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This week, David and Aruna speak with three powerful change makers collaborating to form the UN Girls' Education (UNGEI) initiative to end school-related gender-based violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Leading the initiative is a trifecta of development practitioners, action-oriented researchers and behavior change experts – Nora Fyles (Head of Secret…

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Episode 07: Misconduct within Humanitarian Organizations 28:18

6+ y ago28:18

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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 experience in humanitarian contexts within UN organizations; Robin Yaker, who has worked for the International Rescue Committee and Raising Voices; and Sarah Douglas, who …

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Episode 06: Toxic Masculinity and Misogyny 38:39

7y ago38:39

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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 Tramontano, who teaches theories of gender and masculinity, and Pablo Castillo-Diaz who is a Policy Specialist at UN Women, and studies the link between violent extremi…

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Episode 05: #Metoo on College Campuses 44:56

7y ago44:56

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In this episode, we examine the impact the #metoo movement is making on college campuses and policies. We spoke with students, faculty, and associates from UC Santa Cruz, the University of Sussex, Makerere University, and The YP Foundation in India to explore the meaning of the hashtag, and it's repercussions in a global context. Join us for this p…

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Episode 04: The Story of Letsema 21:48

7y ago21:48

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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 based violence, and negative social norms around women and the LGBT community. We talked to Nina Benjamin and Nispho Twala from the Labor Research Service in …

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Episode 03: Evolutionary organizations 29:48

7+ y ago29:48

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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 Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness, published in 2014. In his book, Laloux discusses the evolution of organisational structures and he labels …

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Episode 02: Feminist Activism and Self-care 38:36

7+ y ago38:36

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“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 impossible to be a black woman alone.” - Yasmin Thayna, Brazilian filmmaker and activist at the 2016 AWID Forum In this episode on Feminist Activism and Self Care hosted…

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Episode 01: Conversation on Patriarchy 50:57

7+ y ago50:57

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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 and regenerating our strategies and practices to transform the world, build cultures of equality and end patriarchy. Our first podcast is an informal conversation over dinner with wome…

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Episode 00: Women's March on Washington 12:49

7+ y ago12:49

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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 inequality to advance gender equality. Currently, we are witnessing many changes in the contexts where we work including increasing inequalities, and myriad new…

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