19-03-2018 11:00 via ottawacitizen.com

Taman: Here's why Jim Watson is wrong about a women's bureau

In an article published nearly 30 years ago, Bertha Wilson – the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada – provocatively asked: “Will Women Judges Really Make a Difference?”
The legal profession then was struggling not just with how diversity on the bench should be achieved, but why.
Conventional wisdom of the day argued there was no benefit to increasing diversity among judges, since the very nature of their job meant they were already committed to being imp
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