Gender Equality Initiative/LGBT+ Network: “Intersectionality - LGBT+ and Gender”

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In July 2012, the InterLaw Diversity Forum, with support from The Law Society and the Bar Council, surveyed almost 2,000 respondents from all strands of diversity and inclusion in the UK legal sector. From this data it published its ground-breaking report Career Progression in the Legal Sector, with a preface from Baroness Patricia Scotland PC QC. The report combined hard data with respondents’ perceptions of their own career progression, as well as their perception of the fairness and transparency of policies and practices in their workplaces.

The goal of the report was to identify the barriers facing these diverse groups and to provide recommendations to address and ultimately solve these issues. The report told us that lawyers from protected classes under the Equalities Act and from disadvantaged backgrounds were working harder and earning less than their straight, white, elite-educated male counterparts. In fact, the more “boxes” they ticked (i.e., intersectionality/multiple identities) with regards to diversity and social mobility, the more pronounced this disadvantage became. We recommended in this report that law firms needed to change their cultures to become more meritocratic by: (i) adopting targets; (ii) changing culture; (iii) training their leaders; and (iv) addressing social mobility.

Since publishing this report we have shifted our focus at the InterLaw Diversity Forum towards intersectionality and widened our scope beyond LGBT+ to encompass all strands of diversity and inclusion. We are updating this research and publishing a new report this year.

Please join us on Wednesday, 15 May at Cooley for a very special meeting of our LGBT+ Network in collaboration with our Gender Equality Initiative (a partnership with The Law Society) where we will examine the intersection of gender and LGBT+. Our panel will feature LGBT+ women as well as their allies to compare and contrast their experiences in the legal profession. What can we learn from the crossroads of gender and sexual orientation? How can we be better allies to support them?

Speakers:

• Emily Smith-Reid, Deputy General Counsel, HSBC
• Jenny Tellyn, Head of Knowledge Management, Stephenson Harwood
• Daniel Winterfeldt, Global Capital Markets Partner, Reed Smith; Chair, InterLaw Diversity Forum (Moderator)
  

Date: Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Location: Cooley, 69 Old Broad St, London EC2M 1QS

18:00 Arrival and Registration 
18:30 Meeting Starts
20:00 - 21:00 Networking Drinks

Thanks to Cooley for generously hosting this event!

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