But simply dismissing the entirety of the EDI initiatives as lacking legal authority, especially in the context of a study that has said that lawyers are resistant to preventing discrimination in their workplaces and the legal industry in general, only highlights further that the goals of many licensees differ from the broader objectives of creating a more inclusive legal community
where systemic discrimination does not occur.
Not exact matches
For every workplace
where co-ed beer pong tournaments end with a round of respectful fist bumps, there's another
where women employees report
systemic discrimination or unwanted come - ons.
Where elements of
systemic racial
discrimination does exist, recommendation 25 provides concrete steps in which to address it:
But the concept of
systemic discrimination (or
systemic racism
where race is the particular focus) is not about individual intentional
discrimination.
Systemic discrimination cases involve a pattern or practice, policy, or class case
where the alleged
discrimination has a broad impact on an industry, profession, company or geographic area.
promoting and enhancing opportunities for people in places
where systemic barriers, bias, and
discrimination unfairly hold them back;
Now I note that you said today that there's been great improvement over a short period of time, and I'm sure there has been, but you know it's interesting to me, and again I will say this because I come from a country myself
where there is a disadvantaged community and a lot of government programs et cetera, it's of serious concern the extent of the dramatic inequalities that are still being experienced by these population groups when they represent only, you know, no more than 2 % of the population of a highly developed, industrialised state, and I just, it makes me wonder about things like the effectiveness of the programs, monitoring, benchmarking, what are the standards, is anybody watching this to see whether or not they really are designed to meet the disadvantages that are real in the communities, you know the real history of
systemic discrimination, institutional racism?