Elizabeth Sheehy - Calling for Change: Women, Law, and the Legal Profession

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Sheila McIntyre

In 1993, the Canadian Bar Association [CBA]

The conference Re-Imagining Touchstones: The Wilson Report Ten Years on and Counting; Re-Visiting the Issues and Re-Thinking the Questions/Repenser Les Assises de la rforme: retour sur les questions souleves une dcennie et plus aprs le rapport Wilson, was designed to reassess not only the status of women within the profession but also the experience of women who engage, by choice or by compulsion, with the legal system. Twenty-nine women, among them community activists, academics, practitioners, law students, women litigants, and law society benchers and staff offered their perspectives on the context in which egalitarian change is occurring and impeded, and on the very mixed results of womens efforts to secure such change from inside and outside the legal system. Twenty-four of those conference participants are represented in this collection. Some 150 people, primarily women from an equally diverse range of constituencies, attended the conference.

This book attempts to capture the range of voices and perspectives on womens engagements with law, in pursuit of equality, of those who gathered one day in Ottawa in March 2004.embrace an understanding of lawyering as a public service, an enabling profession. Feminist activists working outside of the profession call upon women lawyers for feminist practices, accountability, and power-sharing to empower individual women and frontline womens groups in our common project of securing substantive equality for all women. Hence this books title, Calling for Change: Women, Law, and the Legal Profession.

Some of this books chapters offer the immediacy of the authors original delivery; other chapters are conventional scholarly works that were presented in highly abbreviated form at the conference. Some have the familiar streamlined character of an executive summary or legal memo; others risk painful and critical reflections on the experience of the conference as an instance of growing inequalities among women in relation to law and in society. We have made no attempt to render the texts uniform, preferring to allow the diversity of these texts to underline the diversity of women engaging law and the range of their experiences when doing so.

We cannot claim, however, that either the conference or this text is fully representative of the diversity of women engaging the legal system. Ultimately, conference organizers bear responsibility for the voices and issues that were not heard at the event or expressed in this collection. Our efforts to focus the conference beyond the equality struggles and successes of privileged professional women and our active recruiting of non-lawyers, of racialized, Aboriginal, lesbian, disabled, and working-class women revealed that legal activists in and outside the profession and members of under-represented groups within the profession, many of whom are young mothers, remain thin on the ground ten years after Touchstones. They are also overextended precisely because the achievement of diversity in initiatives like this conference increases the already unacceptable emotional, social, familial, and professional burdens on such individuals. We are grateful to those who chose to fit contributing to this conference and this book into their crowded schedules.