sex discrimination
- Created by: Laura Bradley
- Created on: 12-12-12 16:54
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- The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and 1986
- Makes it unlawful to discriminate against an individual on the grounds of gender and marriage and promotes sexual equality within employment, education, advertising, provision of housing, goods, services and facilities.
- Applies to both men and women of any age, including children, altough more women have experienced prejudice on the grounds of sexual discrimination than men.
- Discrimination can happen in two ways
- Directly: treating an individual differently because of their gender.
- Indirectly: although both sexes are considered, one sex dominates the other.
- Amended in 1986 to ensure that discrimination within small firms, private households and employment and at the age of retirement, was abolished.
- If an employer is found to be guilty of discrimination by an Industrial Tribunal under the Sex Discrimination Act: *the Tribunal will make recommendations for steps to be taken in the company to remedy the situation *the employer, will be ordered to pay compensation to the complainant for loss and inhury suffered as a consequence of the discrimination which has occured.
- The same protection is offered to those in a civil partnership as to those who are married.
- Applies in Wales, Scotland and England, to women and men of any age and to children.
- Sex discrimination is unlawful and in cases such as discriminatory advertising people are within their rights to take action.
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