The State of Diversity Among Leadership Roles Within Canada’s Largest Arts and Culture Institutions

This Emerald Insight journal issue by Charlie Wall-Andrews, Rochelle Wijesingha, Wendy Cukier, and Owais Lightwala aims to explore whether the membership of Canada’s largest arts and cultural organizations well-reflect the country’s diversity and examine the state of diversity among leadership roles within these institutions when viewed through a geographical, gender, racial, and intersectional lens. The authors found that there is a disconnect between Canada’s diversity and the leadership representation among the largest arts and culture organizations.

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Reporting and Investigating Mechanisms for Workplace Harassment in the Arts

Under the banner Respectful Workplaces in the Arts, the Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC) engaged consultant Jeanne LeSage to identify gaps in reporting and investigating mechanisms to deal with workplace harassment in the arts, and recommend next steps. The report has 10 recommendations, 4 directed at reporting harassment, and 6 directed at investigations.

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