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How Fair is Britain? 2010 The EHRC first Triennial Review Equality indicators in practice.
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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