Sentences with phrase «by racialized»

The barriers faced by racialized lawyers are not about their lack of competence or ability to work hard.

The Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group found that racialized lawyers and paralegals face barriers at all stages of their careers.

After gathering extensive information about the challenges faced by racialized licensees and best practices to address these challenges, the Working Group prepared a consultation paper, which was presented to Convocation on October 30, 2014.

The Law Society of Upper Canada created the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group in 2012 to identify the challenges faced by racialized lawyers and paralegals and consider strategies for enhanced inclusion at all career stages.

For example, the Community Liaison Report provided to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Challenges Faced By Racialized Licensee Working Group reported, among other things, that:

The statement of principles is one of 13 recommendations approved by Convocation last December and that came out of a report identifying barriers faced by racialized licencees.

The origin of the obligation is the adoption of Recommendation 3 (1) in the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group's Final Report.

«The challenges faced by racialized licensees have an impact on the reputation of the legal professions, access to justice, and the quality of services provided,» the report states.

These questions form the basis of LSUC's consultation — it has invited written submissions until March 1, 2015 on the questions set out in the Consultation Paper and «welcome [s] additional ideas, initiatives or practices that may assist in addressing the challenges faced by racialized licensees.»

The writer argues in his letter that (i) the evidence does not support the conclusion that there is systemic racism in the legal professions, (ii) the claim of systemic racism vilifies lawyers and paralegals by labelling them as racist, (iii) the 13 recommendations are a form of unauthorized social engineering, (iv) racism and bullying are just part of life and should be simply be endured and overcome by racialized licensees as others have done before them, (v) the true problem is economic class not race, (vi) white privilege is a ridiculous concept as it relates to white and racialized lawyers and (vii) racialized lawyers who join legal associations based on race or ethnic origin can not complain that they are not treated equally.

You can certainly argue about the problems faced by racialized communities and how that would impact their odds of getting into a Canadian law school, and you can put forward proposals to help them get in.

Another of the association's submissions to the law society dealt with the regulator's report on issues faced by racialized licensees.

Racial equity related experiences encountered by racialized and Aboriginal Peoples as members of the Nova Scotia legal profession;

Survey Participation by Racialized and Non-Racialized Licensees — In terms of racialized and non-racialized licensees, of the 3296 who completed the survey, 1665 (51 %) of the sample) were racialized and 1631 (49 % of the sample) were non-racialized.

Background: In September 2017, Ontario lawyers were informed by the Law Society of Ontario that they were expected to comply with a set of strategies adopted by the Law Society to address barriers to admission and within the profession faced by racialized licensees and other equality seeking groups.

Developing public education materials about employment equity and why it will help facilitate equitable social and economic integration by racialized communities;

«I am not surprised that we have heard from a small but vocal segment of the legal profession and other commentators about the words I am proud to have drafted and insisted upon, and which passed after a healthy debate at Convocation,» says Anand, who is a co-chairman of the law society's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group.

To address this, LSUC is undertaking a formal working group to Address Challenges faced by Racialized Licensees, culminating in a 2014 report.

Of particular note in this context is the decision in Law Society of Upper Canada v. Selwyn Milan McSween, which found explored the systemic disadvantages experienced by racialized licensees.

Programs like this can serve as an example for other provinces in dealing with the barriers faced by racialized lawyers.

But more importantly, it provides solutions and a way forward; for when we can remove the obstacles faced by racialized lawyers today, then we can speak of merit and equality tomorrow.

As Co-Chair of the Equity and Aboriginal Issues Committee and Vice - Chair of the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees WG, together with my colleagues, I have led initiatives to strengthen our commitment to Aboriginal justice and to supporting the racialized bar.

On a smaller scale, the final report of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group includes a recommendation that the Law Society, every four years, develop and publish an inclusion index which would «include legal workplaces» assessments of their diversity and inclusion - related achievements and that would allow legal workplaces to demonstrate their performance and progress.»

The Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group was established in 2012 to gather information and develop recommendations to address these challenges.

The Law Society of Upper Canada is trying to bring more attention to issues of diversity and equity in the profession through a working group and reports such as Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees.

This time, the focus is on the recently released Consultation Paper entitled Addressing Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees.

As co-chairman of the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees working group, Anand presented the group's final report to Convocation on Dec. 2, 2016 and obtained the approval of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

A consultation paper titled «Developing Strategies for Change: Addressing Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees» was presented to Convocation on Oct. 30, 2014, and it was followed by consultations throughout 2015.

Work with stakeholders such as law firms, legal associations and law schools to develop policies and procedures to address challenges faced by racialized lawyers;

The group's mandate was to investigate the challenges faced by racialized licensees and consider strategies for enhanced inclusion at all career stages.

The statement of principles has faced vocal opposition from some legal scholars and lawyers since it was introduced by the law society this fall as part of an initiative to combat the barriers faced by racialized licensees.

The qualitative and quantitative data they received confirmed there are widespread barriers experienced by racialized licencees at all stages of the career.

Consider the countless resources put into The Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group over 4 years, all to come up with the conclusion that there is widespread discrimination by lawyers against other lawyers on the basis of race.

Hum adds it is «encouraging that so many people are engaged and are taking these challenges faced by racialized licensees seriously.»

: Reflections on the Law Society's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group Report

The Working Group on the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees has provided the path forward.

It is critical that the work of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees not get lost in all this regulatory alphabet soup.

What we're looking at is the inevitable result of that history expressed through public opinion, and influenced by racialized ideas on crime and criminality.

In reality, a scene set on farmers» fields across the country should show that a great deal of agricultural work in Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workers.

Not exact matches

Further to my earlier post showing that the public / private sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal pay for women in service jobs, Â a recent piece from Canadian Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized workers and non racialized workers exists almost entirely in the private sector and not in the public sector.

Another reason for that intolerably high public sector compensation premium — Further to my earlier post showing that the public / private sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal pay for women in service jobs, Â a recent piece from Canadian Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized -LSB-...]

As the author of Diversity: The Invention of a Concept, I am plainly on record as doubting that America benefits from classifying people by race and meting out social goods according to a racialized formula.

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem 3.

I was deeply troubled by this wrong - headed and frankly racialized assumption.

She shows how schools can help address the civic empowerment gap by teaching collective action, openly discussing the racialized dimensions of citizenship, and provoking students by engaging their passions against contemporary injustices through action civics.

This won't be an easy omelet to unscramble, especially in today's hyper - racialized climate of mistrust and even violence, but there's no part of federal education policy in greater need of redirection — and none that is more subject to unilateral action by the executive branch.

Group differences in school outcomes represent ill - gotten gains that schools must equalize by ridding themselves of «white privilege,» «racialized hierarchies,» and «opportunity hoarding.»

An analysis of the structural underpinnings of racialized outcomes by a renowned sociologist.

Housing segregation in the United States has a disturbing history of continued oppression of minority groups, specifically African Americans, by maintaining racialized patterns of housing throughout the nation.

Private Action with «Neutral» Intent The fourth area impacting residential segregation, and the one proving hardest to combat, is the exacerbation of spatial inequality by the choices of private citizens that are not motivated by race, but by other factors that are often correlated with race; these factors have racialized consequences when acted upon.