equality and diversity Flashcards
What is alterity?
Someone’s otherness or difference
What is equality?
Fairness of opportunity and observing the rights of people to their alterity is not discriminated against
What is equity?
Giving everyone what they need, not giving everyone the same, understanding their barriers, circumstances and conditions
What is the difference principle?
Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged
What are the 9 diversity strands protected in law?
Age
Disability
Gender reassignment
Marriage and civil partnership
Pregnancy and maternity
Race and ethnicity
Religion and belief
Sex
Sexual orientation
What is a disability?
Any restriction or lack (resulting from and impairment) of ability to perform an activity within the range normal for a human being
What is an impairment?
Any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or anatomical structure
People with what conditions are protected from the Equality Act 2010?
Cancer
HIV infection
Multiple sclerosis
What is direct discrimination?
Treating people less favourably because of a protected characteristic
What is indirect discrimination?
Putting people with a protected characteristic at an unfair disadvantage
What is associative discrimination?
Discrimination because of another person’s protected characteristic
What is perceived discrimination?
When it is believed that a person has a protected characteristic
What is harassment?
Discrimination through violating a person’s dignity, or a degrading, humiliating, hostile, intimidating, or offensive environment
What is victimisation?
Detriment to a person who is making use of the Equality Act 2010 or is thought to be doing so
Give an example of direct discrimination
Excluding patients from your practice based on their protected characteristics
