Women, Work, More: A Podcast Series
Experiences of gendered work are multifaceted.
Common concepts like the glass ceiling or the gender wage gap, don’t 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 — these experiences not only vastly differ from men’s, 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 SFU 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 — 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’ lived experiences, we hear from professors, labour organizers and policy critics as they share their expertise and findings.
Tune in to hear about women’s varying work-related struggles, explore solutions, and observe how women enact agency and resistance — while working to re-empower themselves within the very sociocultural contexts that often tries to limit their agency.
Series Episodes
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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’s 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, ‘Front of House Experiences During COVID-19: An Analysis of a Coffee Shop in Vancouver’, 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 xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Audio Editor: Paige Smith
Paige Smith (she/her) is an experimental filmmaker and visual artist on xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories. She holds a BFA in Film from SFU 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 SFU 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’ 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 SFU’s 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 SFU’s 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 xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Transcription & Copywriting: Melissa Roach
Melissa Roach (she/her) is a writer, mediamaker, and communicator on xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) lands. She has worked as Communications Coordinator for SFU’s 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, Grounded Futures, where she supports the creation of podcasts and multimedia works that amplify voices from below. She holds a B.A. in English from SFU, where she worked as an editor for SFU’s 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.
