Women’s rights and minorities’ rights in Canada. The challenges of intersectionality in Supreme Court jurisprudence

Scotti, Valentina Rita

doi:10.1515/pof-2017-0025

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“…However, so-called victories, such as the 1918 Canadian federal decision to allow "women" over the age of 21 to vote, often left out subgroups of the discriminated faction. In the aforementioned example, Asian and Aboriginal women, both classified equally "female" as white women, were not allowed to vote until respectively 1948 and 1960, bringing to attention the effects of intersectionality (Scotti, 2017). It is reasonable to assume that white (usually property-owning) women gained an advantage over women of other racial origins or lower economic status due to racist and classist beliefs, and it can even be argued that white women's progress in gaining the right to vote somewhat hindered others' self-advocacy efforts (Grimshaw and Ellinghaus, 1999).…”

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A Novel Approach to Fairness in Automated Decision-Making using Affective Normalization

Hoey¹,

Chan²

2022

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Any decision, such as one about who to hire, involves two components. First, a rational component, i.e., they have a good education, they speak clearly. Second, an affective component, based on observables such as visual features of race and gender, and possibly biased by stereotypes. Here we propose a method for measuring the affective, socially biased, component, thus enabling its removal. That is, given a decision-making process, these affective measurements remove the affective bias in the decision, rendering it fair across a set of categories defined by the method itself. We thus propose that this may solve three key problems in intersectional fairness: (1) the definition of categories over which fairness is a consideration; (2) an infinite regress into smaller and smaller groups; and (3) ensuring a fair distribution based on basic human rights or other prior information. The primary idea in this paper is that fairness biases can be measured using affective coherence, and that this can be used to normalize outcome mappings. We aim for this conceptual work to expose a novel method for handling fairness problems that uses emotional coherence as an independent measure of bias that goes beyond statistical parity.

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A Novel Approach to Fairness in Automated Decision-Making using Affective Normalization

Hoey¹,

Chan²

2022

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“…Although experimental research on the in‐the‐moment use of racial color blind strategies has focused primarily on neutral or innocuous contexts (e.g., Guess Who game, Apfelbaum et al., ), in many real‐world instances, claims of racial color blindness occur after racial conflict or misunderstanding (Scotti, ). Therefore, the current research extended prior research by investigating racial color blindness in an ambiguous negative intergroup situation with the potential for intergroup tension.…”

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“…Second, in real‐world situations, claims like “I don't see race” often occur in response to circumstances marked by intergroup conflict or disagreement (Scotti, ). Because the use of racial color blindness allows people to believe that they have reduced the chance that others will perceive them as racist (Apfelbaum et al., ; Goff et al., ; Neville et al., ; Somers et al., ), such strategies may be particularly common in contentious situations.…”

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I Don't See Race (or Conflict): Strategic Descriptions of Ambiguous Negative Intergroup Contexts

Karmali

Kawakami

Vaccarino

et al. 2019

Journal of Social Issues

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Despite current societal trends to encourage diversity, individuals often avoid acknowledging race, and we suggest also conflict, because of concerns about appearing prejudiced. The present research investigated the use of racial color and conflict blind strategies in an ambiguous negative intergroup context. In three studies, we assessed whether people acknowledged race and conflict using a novel ambiguous context task. Study 1 demonstrated that when describing an intergroup interaction with a photograph of Black and White males bumping into one another, only 27% of participants used racial labels and approximately half (53%) mentioned conflict. In Study 2, when participants described two White males in the same situation, significantly fewer participants mentioned conflict compared to when the photograph depicted a Black and White male actor, but rates of mentioning race were not different. Finally, in Study 3, when participants were instructed to use race when describing the actors, they mentioned conflict significantly less than when they were free to avoid racial labels. These latter results suggest that although racial color blindness may be used to appear unbiased, when this strategy is unavailable, people may resort to not referencing intergroup negativity. Together these findings indicate that racial color and conflict blindness may work in conjunction as compensatory strategies to appearing nonprejudiced.

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Women’s rights and minorities’ rights in Canada. The challenges of intersectionality in Supreme Court jurisprudence

Cited by 2 publications

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A Novel Approach to Fairness in Automated Decision-Making using Affective Normalization

A Novel Approach to Fairness in Automated Decision-Making using Affective Normalization

I Don't See Race (or Conflict): Strategic Descriptions of Ambiguous Negative Intergroup Contexts

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