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Gender Equity Research

EMPOWERING WOMEN LEADERS

Selected Presentations:

  • Bourgeault, I.L. & Ruth Decady, Empowering women leaders webinar series. Equity, diversity & inclusion toolkits.Webinar 1: Toolkit to support diverse women leaders. March 29th, 2021.

  • Bourgeault, I.L. & Bill Tholl. Empowering women leaders webinar series. Equity, diversity & inclusion toolkits. Webinar 2: Toolkit to support men as allies. March 22nd, 2021.

  • Bourgeault, I.L. & Billie Jane Hermosura Empowering women leaders webinar series. Equity, diversity & inclusion toolkits. Webinar 1: Toolkit to support women leaders, March 8th, 2021.

  • Bourgeault, I.L. (2019). Empowering Women Leaders in Health Initiative. Canadian Association of Paediatric Health Centres, Webinar, February 6.

Key Publications:

  • Bourgeault, I. L., Decady, R., Pascual, J., & Hermosura, B. J. (2022, September). Leading practices for men to support women’s health leadership: A toolkit of resources to initiate change. InHealthcare Management Forum(p. 08404704221119099). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications
  • Gaudet, S., Marchand, I., Bujaki, M., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2022). Women and gender equity in academia through the conceptual lens of care.Journal of Gender Studies,31(1), 74-86
  • Shamseer, L., Bourgeault, I., Grunfeld, E., Moore, A., Peer, N., Straus, S. E., & Tricco, A. C. (2021). Will COVID-19 result in a giant step backwards for women in academic science? Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 134, 160-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.03.004

  • Tricco, Andrea C., Bourgeault, I.L. Moore, A., Grunfeld, E., Peer, N., & Straus, S. E. (2021). Advancing gender equity in medicine. CMAJ, 193(7), E244-E250.

  • Lundine, J., Bourgeault, I.L., Glonti, K., Hutchinson, E., Balabanova, D. (2019) "I don't see gender": conceptualizing a gendered system of academic publishing. Social Science & Medicine, 235, 112388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112388

  • Bourgeault, I.L., James, Y., Lawford, K., & Lundine, J. (2018) Empowering Women Leaders in Health: A Gap Analysis of the State of Knowledge. Canadian Journal of Physician Leaders, 5(2), 92

  • Lundine, J.,  Bourgeault, I.L., Clark, J., Heidari, S., & Balabanova, D. (2018) The gendered system of academic publishing. The Lancet. Volume 391, No. 10132, p1754–1756, 5 May.

 

SGBA PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH & SAFETY

Supporting an SGBA lens on psychologically healthy workplaces, CIHR Health Policy Partnership, 2017-2020

SGBA Toolkit - A Sex & Gender-Based Analysis

Overview video

Selected Presentations:

  • Bourgeault, I.L., Runnels, V., & Atanackovic, J. (2019). Sex, Gender and Psychological Health and Safety, Canadian Public Health Assn., Ottawa, May

  • Bourgeault, I.L. Application of Sex and Gender Lens in Support of Psychologically Healthy Workplaces, Health Canada, October 24, 2018.

Key Publications: 

  • Bartram, M., Atanackovic, J., Runnels, V., & Bourgeault, I.L., Fournier, C., Kovacina, N., ... & Renaud, A. (2020). Applying gender-based analysis plus to Employee Assistance Programs: A Canadian perspective. Journal of Workplace Behavioural Health, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/15555240.2020.1726773

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLytTTOuJ5VUoN5s8c3o6jGa0wrW_lIHlt 

GENDER & HEALTH WORKFORCE

Gender, Work and Health Human Resources Chair, CIHR, 2014-2019

On the Move Partnership: Nova Scotia Care Workers On the Move

Selected Presentations: 

  • Bourgeault, I.L. The Future of the Health Workforce: Gender and Technology Considerations. Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research, Semi Plenary Session, Montreal, May 29, 2018
  • Bourgeault, I.L., Jackson, L., Kruisselbrink, A., Barber Gardiner, Pauline., Leiter, Michael., Price, Sheri., Nourpanah, Shiva. The often invisible challenges posed by employment-related geographic mobility: A comparative qualitative study of Nova Scotian health workers. Poster presentation to the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research Conference 2016
  • Bourgeault, I.L. Gendering Health Human Resources Research and Policy, Institute of Gender and Health Research Panel, Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research Conference, May, 2014.

Key Publications

OTHER PUBLICATIONS ON GENDER AND THE PROFESSIONS

  • Bourgeault, I.L., & Khokher, P. (2006) Making a better living from caregiving: comparing strategies to improve wages for care providers. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 43(4) 407-426.

  • Bourgeault, I.L. (2005). Gendered professionalization strategies & the rationalization of health care: midwifery, nurse practitioners, and hospital nurse staffing in Ontario, Canada. Knowledge, Work and Society, 3(1), 25-52.

  • Adams, T., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2003) Feminism and women’s health professions in Ontario. Women & Health, 38(4), 73-90.

  • Angus, J., & Bourgeault, I.L. (1998/99). Medical dominance, gender and the state: the nurse practitioner initiative in Ontario. Health and Canadian Society, 5(1), 55-81.

  • Bourgeault, I.L. & Angus, J. (1998/99). Pay and human resource management in nursing and medicine: an examination of gendered structural relations between the professions and the state. Health and Canadian Society, 5(1), 83-110.