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Legal Profession

legal profession: Published in 1993, Touchstones for Change: Equality, Diversity and Accountability, found that one of the barriers faced by women was the failure to accommodate the child-bearing and child-rearing, according to The Chronicle Herald. In the report, minority groups across Canada also told the task force that the legal profession has been, since its inception, a white, male, elitist one and Twenty years have passed since a Canadian Bar Association task force published a ground-breaking report that addressed many of the barriers faced by women in the legal profession. At the time, most law firms did not perceive this as discrimination. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.