[Ws2-diversity] Draft 01 Diversity Report

[Lousewies Vanderlaan]

I agree with adding sexual orientation to the grounds of non-discrimination, but am not familiar withe term “gender expression”. In human rights circles “gender identity” is the term used most frequently, and I had always assumed that was a matter of (personal) expression as well. I am fine with either, as long as people know what it means (I have taken some time to explain the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity to the board and it is a foreign concept to many people, regardless of regional background).

On a more general note the question is do we list all the possible grounds of discrimination (at the risk of missing some) or do we say “no discrimination on ANY grounds” and add an explanatory or illustrative note/footnote somewhere?  No discrimination is the absolute minimum and I am wondering if we can of further?  
“All parts of the ICANN community will/aim to work in a welcoming, inclusive, non-discriminatory way, in order to achieve (maximum) diversity that reflects the diverse/inclusive nature of the multi-stakeholder model”  - or something like that?


Catch you on the call (which I will take from a car audio only),

Lousewies





> On 23 Feb 2017, at 22:19, avri doria <avri at apc.org> wrote:
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> On 23-Feb-17 12:39, Malcolm Hutty wrote:
>> I would like to see a clear commitment that discrimination on the
>> grounds of race, sex, etc should not be tolerated at ICANN.
> 
> 1. i am comfortable with that as long as we also include sexual
> orientation and gender expression.
> 
> 2. we should remember that this is good but not enough (necessary but
> not sufficinet), as i could fill the broadest diversity of skill,
> experience,  race, gender, national origin, sexual preference, and
> gender orientation without ever leaving  NYC.  I think that regional
> diversity is also critical and that needs to be mandated.
> 
> As for quotas , I said I was not recommending them at this time.  But
> what I have seen with gender discrimination, let alone regional
> discrimination in some parts of ICANN does inspire me to want to
> introduce gender and regional quotas.  of what ever race or sexual
> expression.
> 
> avri
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