Sexual Discrimination Act 1975
- Created by: Daniel Kirkbride
- Created on: 18-04-17 17:25
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- Sexual Discrimination Act 1975
- Features
- Employment
- Some exceptions are allowed when it may be detrimental e.g. male counsellors for **** victims
- Includes job adverts
- Goods, facilities and services
- Includes clubs, cafes, hotels, transport, entertainment banking etc.
- Some exceptions: clubs, political parties, religious orders, hospitals, prisons, care homes and charities set up for 1 sex
- Prevents victimisation of those who report issues
- Education
- Prevents discrimination in all schools (except single-sex)
- Single sex sport is allowed if a woman's strength would put them at disadvantage
- However, this is often used to exclude girls from sports
- Housing
- Includes renting, managing, subletting or selling
- Single-sex housing associations exempt
- Employment
- Strengths
- Applies to both men and women and has made equality more prominent
- Perpetrator must prove that they were not discriminating rather than the victim having to prove it happened
- Prevents victimisation
- Covers actions, behaviours and the coercion of others to discrimination
- Covers transgender people (gender reassignment)
- Ensures that employers provide training or show staff are trained
- Weaknesses
- Discrimination against married people is only covered in employment and training
- Discrimination can be hard to identify
- Discrimination against single people is not covered
- Important areas are not covered eg. income tax, immigration and nationality
- Cases are time consuming and expensive
- People may be unaware of their rights
- Legislation doesn't change attitudes
- Indirect discrimination
- When one sex can take advantage of something
- Housing associations excluding single parents (who are mainly women)
- Height restrictions (women are usually smaller)
- When one sex can take advantage of something
- Direct discrimination
- Treating one sex less favourably than another due to sex
- Only offering women childcare courses
- Sexual harassment
- Charging women or men more or less
- Wage gaps
- Treating one sex less favourably than another due to sex
- Effects of sexism
- Low self-esteem
- Afraid to access services
- Fear of victimisation
- Lose trust in practitioners
- Anger
- Why people may not want to report discrimination
- Fear of victimisation
- Denial
- Do not know who to go to
- People may be unaware of their rights
- Features
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