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How Fair is Britain? 2010 report by EHRC assesses equality indicators in practice and measures progress towards mandates set by the Equality Act. The report examines critical issues across various aspects of life, legal security, physical security, health, care and support, education, employment, and standard of living. Findings and challenges are highlighted, including fair treatment at work indicators and intersectional disadvantages. Limitations of the report are also discussed.
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How Fair is Britain? 2010 The EHRC first Triennial Review Equality indicators in practice
The Equality Act (2006) gave the EHRC a statutory duty to: 1. Identify outcomes and indicators that measure society’s progress towards our mandates2. Monitor progress towards each identified outcome by reference to relevant indicators, producing regular reports.(Section 12 of the Equality Act, 2006).How Fair is Britain? is the first of a 3-year cycle of reports of this progress.
Structure of the Report • Part I – A new landscape • Part II – Critical issues facing Britain today • 1) Life 2) Legal security • 3) Physical security 4) Health • 5) Care and support 6) Education • 7) Employment 8) Standard of living • 9) Power and voice • Part III – Findings and challenges
Fair Treatment at Work : our employment indicators • Employment rate • NEET rate • Pay gap • Occupational segregation • Illness/injury at work • Perceptions of discrimination And Low pay
Intersection: multiple disadvantage Employed full time: • Ethnicity and Gender • 13% Pakistani women • 40% White British Women • Religion and Gender • 46% Black Caribbean Women • 14% Muslim women • 60% Christian women and women with no religion
Limitations • Age as a characteristic • Inconsistent across indicators • Sample sizes • Socio-economic/ethnicity/religion characteristics