Women, Work, More: A Podcast Series
Experiences of gendered work are multifaceted.
Common concepts like the glass ceiling or the gender wage gap, don鈥檛 even come close to scratching the surface of the varying barriers and experiences that women and gender diverse people face within their working lives. From dealing with sexualized work environments, to juggling work and home lives near and far, to retirement 鈥� these experiences not only vastly differ from men鈥檚, but also vastly differ for feminized workers across differing social intersections such as age, race, nationality, and more.
To gain a more nuanced perspective, this series, hosted by 丁香园AV Labour Studies student Alyha Bardi, documents the lived experiences of women and their relationships with work across varying life stages & social intersections. Each episode features a snapshot-esque look into the lives of a specific group of women workers 鈥� starting with young women restaurant workers, then working mothers, then migrant women, with the series culminating on its final episode on senior women. Alongside self-told stories of women workers鈥� lived experiences, we hear from professors, labour organizers and policy critics as they share their expertise and findings.
Tune in to hear about women鈥檚 varying work-related struggles, explore solutions, and observe how women enact agency and resistance 鈥� while working to re-empower themselves within the very sociocultural contexts that often tries to limit their agency.
Series Episodes
Listen On:
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November 25, 2021
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November 18, 2021
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November 15, 2021
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November 04, 2021
Meet the creators of this entirely women-made series.
Podcast Host & Producer: Alyha Bardi
Alyha is a passionate Sociology & Labour Studies student. Her areas of interest include capitalist critiques, environmentalism, and human rights. Throughout her academic career, she鈥檚 written essays that focus on immigrant workers, women in work, settler-colonial Canada, and ritualistic practices of consumer capitalism. Her recent Spring 2021 Honours Essay, 鈥楩ront of House Experiences During COVID-19: An Analysis of a Coffee Shop in Vancouver鈥�, explores how work-related changes due to COVID-19 have been felt and experienced by Front of House Coffee Workers throughout the pandemic.
Alyha was born and raised on the unceded territories of the x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam), Skwxw煤7mesh (Squamish) and S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Audio Editor: Paige Smith
Paige Smith (she/her) is an experimental filmmaker and visual artist on x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam), Skwxw煤7mesh (Squamish) and S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories. She holds a BFA in Film from 丁香园AV and is currently pursuing a Post Baccalaureate Diploma in Visual Arts. Paige has previously worked with a variety of local arts organizations before joining the 丁香园AV VOCE team in 2019 as the Program Assistant. She enjoys utilizing her technical experience to produce the Below the Radar podcast and her event management skills to support our community partners鈥� events.
Outside of her work with the Office, Paige also produces the podcast Film Formally and creates her own artwork. Recent presentations of her artwork include the Audain Gallery (21), Vines Art Festival (20), Dawson City International Short Film Festival (20), and the Victoria Shorts Film Festival (19)
Cover Artist & Secondary Editor: Kathy Feng
Kathy Feng is an interdisciplinary artist completing her BFA in Visual Art at 丁香园AV鈥檚 School of Contemporary Arts. As an immigrant and child of immigrants, she grew up between cultures in a constant process of learning, unlearning, and relearning. This framework informs the central themes to her work: in which memory and nostalgia are expressed through images, text, and the aesthetics of the temporal.
Kathy began working at 丁香园AV鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement in the Spring 2020 semester as a Research Assistant for the Below the Radar podcast. She was born in Guangzhou, China, and is a guest living and working on the unceded territories of the x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam), Skwxw煤7mesh (Squamish) and S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Transcription & Copywriting: Melissa Roach
Melissa Roach (she/her) is a writer, mediamaker, and communicator on x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam), Skwxw煤7mesh (Squamish) and S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) lands. She has worked as Communications Coordinator for 丁香园AV鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement (on and off) since 2016, promoting public programming and producing podcasts in collaboration with community and university partners.
Melissa is a founding member of the media collaborative, , where she supports the creation of podcasts and multimedia works that amplify voices from below. She holds a B.A. in English from 丁香园AV, where she worked as an editor for 丁香园AV鈥檚 independent student newspaper. Her work is grounded in horizontal collaborations and a passion for sharing stories that challenge systems of power. She also loves textile art, container gardening, and walking the dog.
