i have really just had the pleasure of meeting ms. davis in the last few years.an remember when i first saw her on tv and thought, here is a woman filled with dignity and compassion, so articulate, and she really helped us to understand what was happening in the world. you know, most of you know that ms. davis was the first black female journalist in the west. and she really did change the face and focus of news. she has recently written a book that is very important, both for her but for us, because it really tells the story of her life and all that has gone on in the world she has lived in. my angelo was quoted as saying "no people can say they understand the times in which they have lived unless they have read this book." the name of that book is "never in my wildest dreams." belva davis. [applause] [applause] >> listen, thank you very much for that generous round of applause. i am going to start out by boring you, telling you what my mourning has been like. because i am is now admitting that i have to do something about my life, number one. without my cell ph

ms. davies. in your studies about type one and type two, types of thinking and the way that we are influencing and, in fact, we have implicit bias, when we use the type to type of thinking and the rationale, as you research shown that actually makes a difference in the way people will act? .. thinking but a lot of thinking that we do we think of as racial that is actually quiteer rational. and it really depends on whether it a police officer. who is ebb gauged in particular police practice. for example, understanding the way the practice operates structurally and also that the officer may be susceptible to implicit bias and engaged in the practice. he might be thinking about that delivertively, but unless he really understands existence of implicit bias it may not stop the dis proportionatalty of policing in a neighborhood. i think it's important when we understand how structure mechanism operate to create disparity that we respond to those structure mechanisms with other structure mechanisms. so

ms. davies. the type one in type two types of thinking the way we influence and the fact we haven't listed bias, when we use the type to thinking and rationale, has your research showed that it actually make the difference in the way people will act? specifically talking about voting and tying these things to the value of having a safer public and their stated values of cost in lives when we cater to the type two type of thinking, has your research on this effect could take you to change or do we just now that's the way people think? >> well, he can make a difference if it's informed, analytical thinking. but a lot of thinking that we do, we think of his rational that is actually quite irrational. so it really depends whether a police officer engaged in a particular police practice, for example, understands the way that cracked this operates structurally and also that the opposite may be susceptible to implicit bias when engaged in a practice. he may be thinking about that quite deliberately, but

so i don't know, ms. davis, what prompted canada to remove the restrictions on women in armed services? >> in canada throughout the 1980s, um, the military was dealing with the requirements of our canadian heym rights act and then -- human rights act and the charter of rights and freedom which became part of the canadian constitution in 1985. so, um, at that point it was considered discriminatory to treat women different in terms of employment and a range of other things. throughout the 1980s several women, and one man, submitted complaints to our canadian human rights commission. the women, none of the complaints were related to combat, but they were related to restrictions on the employment of women either because there was a minimum male component in a unit, so women were denied entry because there were already enough women, or because they weren't allowed to serve in certain units even though their occupation, one of them was an administration clerk, but she was denied employment in a particular unit becaus

ms. davies. the question on the type one and tied to thinking and the way that we are influenced in the fact that we have the implicit bias, when we use the tight to thinking and the rationale, has your research shown that that actually makes a difference in the way people will act and specifically when we talking about voting, these things to their stated value as we said before, the stated values of having a safe republic and costing less when we cater to that type of thinking has your research show that is effective in making the change or do we know that's the way people think? >> it can make a difference if it is informed, if it is informed and a local thinking. but a lot of thinking that we do, we think of as rationale that it's actually quite irrational. so it depends on whether a police officer who is engaged in a particular police practice, for example, understand the way that practice operates structurally, and also the officer may be susceptible to implicit bias when engaged in that pr