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Understanding Equal Opportunities and Diversity
Barbara Bagilhole
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Description for Understanding Equal Opportunities and Diversity
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This is a seminal time for Equal Opportunities and Diversity (EO&D) in the UK: the three existing Equality Commissions have been amalgamated into the Commission for Equality and Human Rights and a new Single Equality Act was published in 2010. The concepts of EO&D now incorporate gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, religion and belief and age inequalities. For the future, the problems of separate and relative deprivation, and conflicting experiences and interests, must be tackled, both between and within different categories of disadvantage. These different, complex and sometimes contradictory strands in legislation, policy and practice need to be analysed ... Read more
This is a seminal time for Equal Opportunities and Diversity (EO&D) in the UK: the three existing Equality Commissions have been amalgamated into the Commission for Equality and Human Rights and a new Single Equality Act was published in 2010. The concepts of EO&D now incorporate gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, religion and belief and age inequalities. For the future, the problems of separate and relative deprivation, and conflicting experiences and interests, must be tackled, both between and within different categories of disadvantage. These different, complex and sometimes contradictory strands in legislation, policy and practice need to be analysed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861348487
SKU
V9781861348487
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99-50
About Barbara Bagilhole
Barbara Bagilhole is Professor of Equal Opportunities and Social Policy at Loughborough University. She has carried out extensive research in the field of equal opportunities and diversity, both nationally and internationally.
Reviews for Understanding Equal Opportunities and Diversity
"...this is an important book which will be extremely valuable for those interested in issues of social justice and equality." Claire Worley in Journal of Social Justice "... an extremely insightful examination of equal opportunities and diversity ... that will make us better equipped to develop and implement policies that respond to the multiple disadvantages that are present in ... Read more