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HUMAN RESOURCES
DR TESSA WRIGHT
Lecture 5: Equality and Diversity
MEN
WOMEN
Full-time
Part-time
Full-time
Part-time
88%
12%
58%
42%
%
men
Thous
ands
High-paid jobs
Chief executives and senior officials
43.17
25
75
76
Medical practitioners
30.26
42
58
242
28.28
36
64
275
33.55
24
76
146
29.77
62
38
95
6.81
66
34
1,080
6.71
72
28
607
6.40
63
37
456
6.20
68
32
154
Bar staff
6.20
60
40
187
Low-paid jobs
Source: TUC 2014, From Annual Survey of Hours and earnings 2013
25
20
15
10
5
0
Male Part-time
Female Part-time
20
40
60
Percentage
Non-disabled adults
all adults
Equality legislation
Equality Act 2010 covers:
Race
Sex
Disability
Religion
and belief
Sexual orientation
Age
Gender reassignment
Pregnancy
Marital status
Equality legislation
Equality Act 2010 includes:
Direct discrimination
Indirect discrimination
Harassment
Victimisation
Equal pay
Theories of equality
Conceptualising equality
Sameness v difference
Equality of opportunity
Liberal and radical approaches
Jewson and Mason (1986)
Equality of outcome
Equality legislation
Sameness: individual comparator
Difference: indirect discrim., public sector duties
The critique
Liberal approaches
Political will and resourcing
Bureaucratisation
Sameness or the white, male norm?
Radical approaches
Special treatment and the backlash
Challenging the status quo?
Managing diversity
2.
3.
4.
5.
Everyone home
safe every day
Reliable
infrastructure
Reliable
timetables
Biggest
investment since
Victorian era
Technology
enabled future
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Customer focused
organisation
Investing in our
people
Opening up
A railway fit for
the future
Reduced public
subsidy
The critique
Evolution or sanitisation?
Individualistic approach: social group
disadvantage?
Flaws in business case (Noon, 2007):
what if rational to discriminate?
evidence for cost benefits?
employer prejudice?
Rhetoric or reality?