Oppression Of Stereotypes

Stereotypes are generalizations it’s and assumption that people who share physical, religious, cultural or other characteristics have a particular behavioural attribute. For example , “woman are more emotional than men” or “all Irish people are drunks and eat potatoes”.
Prejudice is a belief based on stereotypes. It divides people into inferior and superior groups based on what one person thinks about another person or group. For example
Racism or Anti-Semitism believing that race, skin colour or culture makes certain people inferior for instance the belief that white people are superior or better than black people. Or lookism the belief that appearance and looks determine status for example unattractive people are inferior to attractive
Injustice refers to discriminatory, dehumanizing, and development-inhibiting conditions of living (e.g., unemployment, poverty, homelessness’, and lack of health care), imposed by oppressors upon dominated and exploited individuals, social groups, classes and peoples. These conditions will often cause people to turn to social services for help. Oppression seems motivated by an intent to exploit (i.e., benefit disproportionately from the resources, capacities, and productivity of others) and it results typically in disadvantageous, unjust conditions of living for its victims. It serves as a means to enforce exploitation toward the goal of securing advantageous conditions of living for its perpetrators. Justice reflects the absence of exploitation-enforcing oppression.” (Gil, 1994,
It is againt the law to discriminate against anyone because of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion/belief, sex or sexual orientation. These are called ‘protected characteristics’ and its provided by:
Employment Rights Act 1996 (sections relating to maternity and dependant carer leave)
Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000
Protection from Harassment Act 1997
Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006
The Equality Act 2010 (which repealed many of the previous Acts, Regulations and Statutory Instruments).
In 2010 the Equality act was introduced, this Act legally protects people from discrimination in the work place or wider Society .This single Act has replaced previous anti-discrimination laws. Before this Act came into force there were several legislation already in place to cover discrimination example, Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Race Relations Act 1976 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. However the Equality Act 2010 makes the law easier to understand and strengthens protection in some situations and it outlines eight different types of discrimination and harassment which can