{"id":252679,"date":"2026-08-11T16:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pauktuutit.ca\/?post_type=episode&#038;p=252679"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:37:13","slug":"inuit-womens-stories-matter","status":"publish","type":"episode","link":"https:\/\/pauktuutit.ca\/iu\/episode\/inuit-womens-stories-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Inuit women\u2019s stories matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> Throughout this series, women from across Inuit Nunangat have shared their experiences, and through their stories, we have come to better understand how traditional Inuit gender roles have changed over time as well as what the future may hold as knowledge is passed to younger generations. In this series recap of Our Stories, produced by Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, host Natalie Ittinuar shares final thoughts on gender equity in the Canadian Arctic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests (in order of appearance):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Debbie Gordon-Ruben<\/li>\n<li>Doris Rogers<\/li>\n<li>Tanya Gruben<\/li>\n<li>The women of Happy Valley-Goose Bay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mentioned in this episode: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada: pauktuutit.ca<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThis Is the Life\u201d Women\u2019s Role in Food Provisioning in Paulatuuq, Northwest Territories by Zoe Todd (a chapter in Living on the Land): <a href=\"https:\/\/read.aupress.ca\/read\/living-on-the-land\/section\/42662551-6eb6-4268-8794-ae5854a4ee91\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/read.aupress.ca\/read\/living-on-the-land\/section\/42662551-6eb6-4268-8794-ae5854a4ee91<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":252435,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-252679","episode","type-episode","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Inuit women\u2019s stories matter | \u1438\u1405\u1483\u1451\u144e\u1466<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pauktuutit.ca\/episode\/inuit-womens-stories-matter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"iu_CA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inuit women\u2019s stories matter | \u1438\u1405\u1483\u1451\u144e\u1466\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Description: Throughout this series, women from across Inuit Nunangat have shared their experiences, and through their stories, we have come to better understand how traditional Inuit gender roles have changed over time as well as what the future may hold as knowledge is passed to younger generations. 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