Pushing For Equal Pay and Gender Equality in the Workforce Over the past hundred years‚ women’s participation in the workforce has grown significantly. Today’s women are getting college degrees which was not common before the mid-twentieth century. More of them than ever are taking jobs that were originally run by men. Many women are going into medicine‚ engineering‚ and law which was nearly impossible fifty years ago. Their ability to get into these fields allows them to pursue careers they could
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Equality legislation – a summary The following is a guide only to the legislation currently in place that impacts on equality and diversity issues‚ and is not a comprehensive list. 1970 The Equal Pay Act (EPA) (as amended)‚ makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate between men and women in terms of their pay and conditions (including pay‚ holiday entitlement‚ pension etc) where they are doing the same or similar work; work rated as equivalent; or work of equal value. 1974 The
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Robinson Test Title: introduction into equality and inclusion Start Date: 24/10/2014 Start Time: 11:38 1.1 explain what is meant by‚ equality? The state of being equal‚ especially in status‚ rights‚ or opportunities. Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are treated fairly and equally and no less favourably‚ specific to their needs‚ including areas of race‚ gender‚ disability‚ religion or belief‚ sexual orientation and age. Promoting equality should remove discrimination in all
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Task 3; know how to access information‚ advice and support about diversity‚ equality‚ inclusion and discrimination. 3.1; Identify sources of information‚ advice and support about diversity‚ equality‚ inclusion and discrimination. You can get the Information that you need is from your; guidelines‚ care plans‚ legislation and codes of practice and Policies‚ procedures. You can get the advice that you need is from– from manager or supervisor. You can get the Support you need is from your– from manager
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Equality Act 2010 Liability for employers and employees Inorder to disuss who is liable for maintaining equality we need to first inspect how equality is maintained in any organisation. For the effective and efficient implementation of the Equality Act ‚every organisation has to have its own equality policy drawn out abiding by the Equality Act.This also necessitates the need for carrying out equality audit regularly to maintain the organisation’s efficiency in functioning compliantly.
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The biggest challenge of The Reconstruction Era was creating laws that would work to create equality‚ but laws aren’t always the answer in creating equality especially between whites and blacks. Although the 13th amendment had occurred and slaves were freed and given a "helping hand" to start a new‚ free life‚ that amendment did not help all that much. Later on the blacks were given The Freedmen’s Bureau to get help in resources and finding new opportunities‚ the bureau did try to do as much as
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The Berlin Wall was created to separate the city Berlin into east and west where no one is allowed to cross the border. It was a barbed wired and concrete wall with very high levels of security which made it impossible to get to the other side. Before the wall was built‚ refugees were escaping from east Berlin to the West‚ especially skilled workers who found a better living under a democracy. After a large
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American Educational Research Journal http://aerj.aera.net Reconstructing Equality on New Political Ground: The Politics of Representation in the Charter School Debate at the University of California‚ San Diego Lisa Rosen and Hugh Mehan Am Educ Res J 2003; 40; 655 DOI: 10.3102/00028312040003655 The online version of this article can be found at: http://aer.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/3/655 Published on behalf of http://www.aera.net By http://www.sagepublications.com Additional
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Alise Clark Promoting Equality and Diversity of Service Users in a Care Setting. The society that we now live in has become increasingly more diverse over the years. A reflection of how diverse our communities now are is in our care settings‚ carers now have to be proactive in equally and fairly treating everybody in their care‚ despite having such varied people in their care environment. People such as Nurses‚ Health Care Assistants
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twenty-one year old man by the name of Equality 7-2521. In the beginning of the novel‚ he is alone in a railroad tunnel‚ writing in a journal. It is a sin to be by yourself and to write and think for oneself‚ according to the Council of Vocation. To the World Council‚ all men must be completely alike and they all must form one indivisible “WE”. He meets a seventeen-year-old woman named Liberty 5-3000. He falls in love with her‚ which is not allowed. Later on‚ Equality invents a “box of glass” that contains
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