Deadline: 2-Jul-24
The Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) is accepting applications for the Trans Inclusion in Feminist Workplaces Project.
The Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) is a national not-for-profit that works to advance the substantive equality of women, girls, trans, and non-binary people in Canada through litigation, law reform, and public legal education.
They are funding research to identify the challenges and structural barriers to trans feminine people’s employment and leadership in the feminist sector and to make recommendations as to how these issues may be addressed.
LEAF’s Trans Inclusion in Feminist Workplaces Project aims to develop an evidence-based response as to how feminist and gender equity seeking organizations can increase inclusion of trans feminine individuals in their workplaces. They are funding a researcher to conduct this research.
Components
- The work can be broken down into two main components:
- Qualitative Interviews
- The successful applicant will:
- Collect primary data by interviewing 15-20 trans feminine people – and with a focus on racialized trans feminine people – regarding the challenges they face, or have faced, either as staff members in Canadian gender equity seeking organizations, or in gaining access to employment in the sector; and
- Code the interviews and identify common themes (if any) regarding barriers to entry and/or career advancement.
- The successful applicant will:
- Final report
- A final report will summarize and analyze the interviews and will recommend potential paths forward for gender equity seeking organizations to redress the issue. The successful candidate will be supported by Cee Strauss, LEAF Senior Staff Lawyer.
- Qualitative Interviews
Funding Information
- The successful applicant will be awarded $11,250 to complete their research and write the report. LEAF has an additional budget for honoraria and translation costs.
- Duration: July 2024 to May 2025
Eligibility Criteria
- LEAF welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities for all available opportunities. Where possible, accommodations will be made available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
- LEAF encourages applications from candidates who reflect the diversity of the communities. They strongly encourage applicants who are Black, Indigenous, racialized, newcomers, gender-diverse, and/or part of other equity-deserving groups to apply. In particular for this research opportunity, they strongly encourage applications from trans feminine candidates. If you are comfortable, please indicate in your letter of intent if you identify as a member of an equity-deserving group.
For more information, visit LEAF.