1 - Equality & Diversity Flashcards
What are the nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010?
Age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation.
What is imposter syndrome?
The constant self-doubt that ones achievements are legitimate and that the success is deserved, despite being as a result of own skills, efforts and commitment.
What can imposter syndrome cause someone experience and why?
Self-doubt, inadequacy, intellectual fraudulence - overshadows feeling or evidence of success.
Why - many minority groups have a lack of representation and visibility causing a high prevalence of imposter syndrome.
What is a role model?
Someone who sets a good example to others, and so people aspire to be them/like them - they are worthy of imitation through inspiration.
They are important, particularly from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences, to help those feel they belong.
What are the 3 types of discrimination?
Indirect - put arrangements in place that apply to all but disadvantage a protected characteristic
By association - when a person is treated less favourably because they are linked/associated with a protected characteristic.
Direct - treating someone with a protected characteristic less favourably than others.
What is less favourable treatment?
Anything that puts someone with a protected characteristic at a disadvantage, compared to someone without. It may include exclusion, making a job harder, causing emotional distress or financial loss.
What in the Equality Act 2010 covers long term mental health conditions?
Disability.
What is victimisation?
Detrimental treatment because a person has made, or intends to make, a complaint or enquiry about an equality matter, or support such a complaint or enquiry.
What is positive action?
Positive action is voluntary provisions or special measures aimed at alleviating disadvantage or under-representation experienced by those with protected characteristic(s).
What is positive discrimination?
Positive discrimination is if an employer hire or seek an individual based on their protected characteristic, rather than experience or qualifications.
What is the difference in legality between positive action and positive discrimination?
Action - legal
Discrimination - illegal
What is the difference between less favourable and unfavourable treatment?
Less treatment - involves a comparison to how others are treated.
Unfavourable - encompasses any negative or adverse treatment without necessarily requiring a comparison.
What are reasonable adjustments and who is responsible for them in the workplace?
Reasonable adjustments are changes to the physical or working environment, and employers are accountable for deciding what adjustments will be made.
What is the definition of non-binary?
Umbrella term for those whose gender identity doesn’t conform with man or woman. Non-binary identities are varied and can include some aspects of binary identities, and some who reject them entirely.
What is gender dysphoria?
When a person experiences discomfort or distress surrounding the mismatch with their sex assigned at birth and gender identity - clinical diagnosis.
