Wk11 Equality, Diversity And Protected Characteristics Flashcards
Equality vs. Equity vs. Reality
Equality - everyone has the same regardless of what they need
Equity - everyone gets what they need
Reality - the best gets the biggest
Define harassment
Any action taken to degrade, humiliate or defend one
part in an interaction. Does NOT require repeated offence
Define victimisation
• Treating someone badly due to them making a
complaint of discrimination.
• May also occur by association
Age discrimination
• Recruitment and promotion
• Access to healthcare
• Overall aim to increase the active population long term
- language can be undermining
Racial discrimination
Racial discrimination can be made on the following fronts:
• Skin colour
• Nationality
• Ethnic group
• Medicine and medical education have quite a dodgy record with race
- racial failings in medicine - implicit discrimination
- Historically in the UK medicine has been a profession of the white middle class male.
- Education has largely focused around people with those characteristics and prioritised them (as has research)
- Current move towards decolonizing the medical curriculum – but we have a long way to go.
Gender discrimination
- Defined a the genetic sex of a person – can be modified by the next characteristic.
- Women largely receive the brunt of this
- Current UoB gender pay gap = 19.4% or £4.13/hour
- Sex based harassment – standard form of harassment – harassment because of your sex
- E.g. undermining a colleague because it’s “that time of the month”
- Sexual harassment – when unwanted sexual attention is placed on someone
- Through action • Verbally
- Implicitly
- Via social media
Gender identity discrimination
- Gender is the social construct of sex and foundational to many people’s identities.
- XX, XY or XXY are NOT your gender
- There are a lot of ways to express your gender identity.
- The Equality Act 2010 protects against discrimination on the basis of gender for everyone, and for anyone to be treated as the sex/gender they identify as
- The Gender Recognition Act provides greater protections for those who have sought to legally change their gender.
- Enables transexual people to received a Gender Recognition Certificate
- GRC – legally means your sex under the law is recognised as concordant with your gender identity
- Retrospectively updates your documentation – including provision of a birth certificate with your current name (avoids “bureaucratic dead- naming ”)
Pregnancy discrimination
- Protection during pregnancy and for 26 weeks following the day you have given birth
- If you are treated unfairly for your role as a mother for a baby who is 26 weeks and 1 day old the Equality Act says this is direct sex discrimination
- Stillbirth - still protected against discrimination as long as you were pregnant for at least 24 weeks.
Sexuality discrimination
- The Equality act covers bi- , homo- , and heterosexuality to protect against discrimination
- The other axis of sexuality – allosexuality to asexuality is not covered
- Discrimination can be direct, by perception, and association
Marriage and civil partnership
• People do not have this characteristic if they are: • single • living with someone as a couple neither married nor civil partners • engaged to be married but not married • divorced or a person whose civil partnership has been dissolved • Direct, Indirect and victimisation possibilities
Religion discrimination
- Bigger than the big 6
- Huge overlap between racist discrimination and religious discrimination.
- Often discrimination may be by association rather than directed.
Disability discrimination
A physical or mental impairment that has Substantial
And long term (>12 months or rest of life)
Negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities
Intersectionality
- Discrimination and prejudice can occur across multiple loci
- Multiple discrimination can be greater
- Picking out where prejudice comes from can be difficult.
