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Thursday April 3rd, 2025 with WINGS Series Producer, Frieda Werden
Unrecognized Skillsets Part One

Karen Messing is a professor emerita of biology at the Karen Messing is a professor emerita of biology at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Trained in ergonomics and genetics, she became an internationally-known expert on occupational health from a gender perspective. In this interview, she talks about what is overlooked about the skills women bring to many kinds of jobs that are gendered female, the punishing conditions they often face, the paucity of research on them, and the value of their knowledge. Interview by Frieda Werden, recorded at CJSF-FM at Simon Fraser University. Music: The Solidarity Notes Labour Choir of Vancouver BC Canada, "Bread and Roses" - Words by James Oppenheim and music by Mimi and Richard Farina