{"id":423597,"date":"2019-10-21T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging.legal500.com\/profiles\/?post_type=additional_tab&#038;p=423597"},"modified":"2019-10-21T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:15:58","slug":"diversity-106","status":"publish","type":"additional_tab","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/additional_tab\/diversity-106\/","content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Lion Chambers [\u201cRLC\u201d] can demonstrate its commitment to equality of opportunity and in some areas, we significantly outperform the Bar statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Gender: In the 100th year of women at the Bar, 35% of QCs in Chambers are female against the Bar statistics of 15.8%. This year, 75% of our pupils are female as against the Bar average of 50%.<\/p>\n<p>Non-traditional: Almost half of our members (46%) were the first in their family to go to University and just under half (47%) coming from a UK state school background compared to 39% of members who were educated privately.<\/p>\n<p>We reflect the Bar statistics in that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>58% of tenants are male and 38% female.<\/li>\n<li>78% of members define themselves as British White. 13% identify as from \u2018Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds meeting the representation at the Bar and<\/li>\n<li>6% identify as having a disability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Corporate social responsibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over half of our members (51%) work in roles supporting a range of charitable institutions or community organisations often from Board level down and across a wide range of entities, including schools, housing, legal, BME, female and sports. 34% have worked with the organisations for over 5 years demonstrating a long-standing commitment.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0This year RLC set up projects with ELBA [East London Business Alliance] and UEL Open Doors which aim to provide mentoring and training, opening access to the legal profession and motivating the recipients to achieve their potential.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-423597","additional_tab","type-additional_tab","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/additional_tab\/423597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/additional_tab"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/additional_tab"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}