As the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Gender, Diversity and the Professions, Dr. Bourgeault has undertaken research and scholarship on women in academia and has led the Status of Women Canada funded Empowering Women Leaders in Health project. Prior to and during her CIHR Chair in Gender, Work and Health Human Resources, she has applied a gender lens to research on the health workforce. Awarded a CIHR Health Policy undertaken , building on SGBA Health Policy-Research Partnerships funding she received from CIHR, she has taken an intersectional gender lens on workplace mental health.
- Women in Academia
- Empowering Women Leaders
- Gender & Health Workforce
- SGBA & Mental Health
- Other Research
Women in Academia
Key Publications:
- Tricco, A. C., Nincic, V., Darvesh, N., Rios, P., Khan, P. A., Ghassemi, M. M., ... & Straus, S. E. (2023). Global evidence of gender equity in academic health research: a scoping review. BMJ open, 13(2), e067771.
- Lundine, J., Balabanova, D., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2022) Academic journal publishing: a pathway to leadership in global health. In R. Morgan, K. Hawkins, R. Dhatt, M. Manzoor (Eds.), Women and Global Health Leadership – Power and Transformation, pp. 63-79, Springer Publishing.
- James, Y., Bourgeault, I., Gaudet, S., & Bujaki, M. (2021). Care and Academic Motherhood: Challenges for Research and Tenure in the Canadian University. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 51(4), 85-99.
- Gaudet, S., Marchand, I., Bourgeault, I.L. & Bujaki, M. (2020) Care, vulnérabilité et université: Enjeux de la carrière professorale au féminin. (Pp. 203-228) Dans Sophie Bourgault, Sophie Cloutier et Stéphanie Gaudet (Eds) Éthiques de l’hospitalité, du don et du care : Actualité, regards croisés Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa
- 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.
Selected Presentations:
- Bourgeault, I.L. 2021. The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on EDI in science & technology. Shared Services Canada International Women’s Day Event, March 9th.
- Bourgeault, I.L. 2018. What counts is what can be counted: Reflections on the academic mode of production from a gender lens, CAUT Council, November 24.
Empowering Women Leaders
Key Publications:
- James, Y., Hermosura, B.J., Decady, R., & Bourgeault., I.L. (2024) Gender and healthcare leadership: Addressing critical knowledge gaps by explicitly considering the gendered concept of care. Healthcare Management Forum.
- Hermosura, B. J., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2024). “It takes a village to raise a leader”: Overcoming gender-specific barriers through individual, workplace, and organizational level facilitators. Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, 43, 135-148.
- 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. In Healthcare Management Forum (p. 08404704221119099). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications
- 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.
Selected Presentations:
- Bourgeault, I.L. & Ruth Decady, Empowering women leaders webinar series. Equity, diversity & inclusion toolkits. Webinar 3: 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.
Gender & Health Workforce
Key Publications:
- Durand, F., Bourgeault, I. L., Hebert, R. L., & Fleury, M. J. (2022). The role of gender, profession and informational role self-efficacy in physician–nurse knowledge sharing and decision-making. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 36(1), 34-43.
- Najafizada, S. A. M., Bourgeault, I. L., & Labonté, R. (2019). A gender analysis of a national community health workers program: a case study of Afghanistan. Global Public Health, 14(1), 23-36.
- Betron, M., Bourgeault, I., Manzoor, M., Paulino, E., Steege, R., Thompson, K., & Wuliji, T. on behalf of the Global Health Workforce Network’s Gender Equity Hub (2019) Time for gender-transformative change in the health workforce. The Lancet, 393, February 9, 2019, e25.
- Bourgeault, I.L. (2017) Conceptualizing the Social & Political Context of the Health Workforce: Health Professions, the State and its Gender Dimensions. Frontiers in Sociology, Medical Sociology Section. November.
- Hedden, L., Barer, M., Cardiff, K., McGrail, K., Law, M., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2014) The implications of the feminization of the primary care physician workforce on service supply: a systematic review. Human Resources for Health. 12, 32.
Selected Presentations:
- Bourgeault, I.L. 2022. The health system’s greatest resource: the diversity of its workforce. 2022 Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership. May 6th
- 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. 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.
SGBA & Mental Health
SGBA Toolkit - A Sex & Gender-Based Analysis
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Key Publications:
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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
Selected Presentations:
- Bourgeault, I.L., Runnels, V., Atanackovic, J., & Martinova E. (2020) Application of a Sex and Gender Lens in Support of Psychologically Healthy Workplaces. Health Canada Science Forum. February 2020.
- Bourgeault, I.L., Runnels, V., & Atanackovic, J. (2019). Sex, Gender and Psychological Health and Safety, Canadian Public Health Assn., Ottawa, May 2019.
- Bourgeault, I.L. Application of Sex and Gender Lens in Support of Psychologically Healthy Workplaces, Health Canada, October 24, 2018.
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Other Research
Key Publications:
- 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.