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Martha Friendly has been honoured with a key to the city of Toronto for her dedication to families and children and for helping to shape a universally available, affordable and high-quality early childhood education program for children in Toronto
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In the News — June 27, 2024
Martha Friendly Awarded the Order of Canada as an Officer
Martha Friendly has been awarded the Order of Canada as an Officer for propelling the importance of child care not only for the benefits it accrues to children, but also for its necessity for Canadian families, and particularly for women’s equality.
In the News — June 21, 2024
Kim de Laat’s article nominated for the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Research Excellence in Work and Family
Kim de Laat’s article “Remote Work and Post-Bureaucracy: Unintended Consequences of Work Design for Gender Inequality” was selected as a nominee for the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Research Excellence in Work and Family. This award is presented to author(s) of the best research paper published in a given year.
In the News — May 23, 2024
Peter Moss publishes book on Early Childhood in the Anglosphere
Written by two leading international experts, Early Childhood in the Anglosphere offers a unique comparison of early childhood education and care services, and parenting leave, across seven high-income Anglophone countries. Peter Moss and Linda Mitchell explore what these systems have in common, including the dominance of ‘childcare’ services, widespread privatisation and marketisation, and weak parenting leave. They highlight the substantial failings of these systems, and the causes and consequences of these failings.
In the News — May 21, 2024
Armine Yalnizyan receives the prestigious biennial Galbraith Prize in Economics from the Progressive Economics Forum
The prize recognizes her lifetime efforts to build a better economy. She accepted the prize and delivered a lecture at the Canadian Economics Association on May 21 at Toronto Metropolitan University
In the News — May 15, 2024
Sylvia Fuller on daylong childcare in BC
Sylvia Fuller talks to BC Today about daylong childcare in BC and the importance of after-school care to women in the workforce.
In the News — May 3, 2024
Families Count 2024
The Vanier Institute’s new resource explores three decades of change, continuity, and complexity among families in Canada. Released during the International Year of the Family’s 30th anniversary, Families Count 2024 provides statistical portraits of families in Canada, highlights trends over time, and offers insights on what it all means for families and family life.
In the News — April 29, 2024
Susan Prentice on work-life balance and fertility rates
“Women increasingly are choosing to have fewer children. Canada is not the only country — this is a pattern that we see all around the world as women’s education rates rise, employment rates rise and live births fall,” she says.
“In general, we know from decades of social science research that it’s women who change their life patterns much more than men to accommodate work and family strains.”
In the News — April 4, 2024
Karen Foster awarded SSHRC Sustainable Agriculture Grant
Karen Foster has been selected to lead a $1.9-million initiative supported by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to develop a new national research network that supports an equitable transition to net-zero in Canadian agriculture and its periphery industries.
RC/W News — April 2, 2024
Allyship in Community Research Podcast Part 2
In the spirit of Black History and African Heritage Month at Brock, Masters student Isabelle Hill and recent graduate Christabel Oghinan take the mic to explore what Black allyship looks like in research. They spoke with Dr. Andrea Doucet, Professor in Brock’s Department of Sociology and Canadian Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care, and recent PhD grad Dr. Sadie Goddard-Durant, Director of the Office of Equity Diversity & Inclusion at Durham College about how they negotiated the supervisor-student relationship and what allyship means to them.
RC/W News — April 1, 2024
Allyship in Community Research Podcast Part 1
In the spirit of Black History and African Heritage Month at Brock, Masters student Isabelle Hill and recent graduate Christabel Oghinan take the mic to explore what Black allyship looks like in research. They spoke with Dr. Andrea Doucet, Professor in Brock’s Department of Sociology and Canadian Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care, and recent PhD grad Dr. Sadie Goddard-Durant, Director of the Office of Equity Diversity & Inclusion at Durham College about how they negotiated the supervisor-student relationship and what allyship means to them.