Embracing Equity For All, By All

This year's theme for International Women's Day is "#EmbraceEquity." This is a theme that everyone can engage with. The theme fosters a focus on introspection and self-development to establish ways we can each individually adopt to better promote equity. International Women's Day lends a designated day where people can learn, be self-reflective, and also celebrate the accomplishments of women.

Embracing equity is important in all areas of life and can often be the most challenging to achieve in a work environment. The legal profession, like many others, has historically been a white and male-dominated field. Earl Cherniak in his article titled "The good old days" in the Advocates stated that in his 1960 Call to the Bar, there were only five women out of two hundred lawyers. Now, almost half of the lawyers in Ontario are women. However, this impressive increase in representation is not to say that equity has been embraced by all or for all. In fact, there is still a