2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2007.00624.x
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The Road is Long: Thirty Years of Equality Legislation in Britain

Abstract: This article critically reflects upon the development of British employment equality law, tracking a positive yet hesitant, uneven and incomplete trajectory from anti-discrimination towards equality, and from piecemeal and patchwork coverage towards inclusiveness, integration and intersectionality. It argues that the opportunities provided by the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights and the proposed Single Equality Act should be taken to address remaining weaknesses in the legislative equality package … Show more

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“…Attention is paid to statistics and measures, such as equality planning, and the reason why the laws are needed seems to be lost (Kantola 2010). These findings are consistent with the literature on legal awareness and penalty avoidance in organizations that confirms human resource specialists and managers to be conversant with the legal requirement, but also that formal regulations still have only limited efficacy in preventing inequality (e.g., Dickens 2007;Pratten and Lovatt 2005). If we want to promote equality, we need to tackle the informal practices that produce inequality.…”
Section: Recruitment By the Booksupporting
confidence: 78%
“…Attention is paid to statistics and measures, such as equality planning, and the reason why the laws are needed seems to be lost (Kantola 2010). These findings are consistent with the literature on legal awareness and penalty avoidance in organizations that confirms human resource specialists and managers to be conversant with the legal requirement, but also that formal regulations still have only limited efficacy in preventing inequality (e.g., Dickens 2007;Pratten and Lovatt 2005). If we want to promote equality, we need to tackle the informal practices that produce inequality.…”
Section: Recruitment By the Booksupporting
confidence: 78%
“…In addition, legal and industrial relations scholars (e.g. Hepple et al, 2000;Dickens 1997Dickens , 2007 have lobbied for radical change to the equality legislation.…”
Section: Rethinking Equality Legislation and Representationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…That is, acknowledging the (often, empirical) general importance of gender while simultaneously positing its lack of immediate (often, conceptual) significance. This echoes explicit and implicit calls for integrated analyses of the state by O'Reilly (2006) and which can be seen in Dickens's (1998Dickens's ( , 2000Dickens's ( , 2007 work on interconnected state/legal, employer and trade union effects on equality issues. O'Reilly (2006: 745) argues that restructuring of economies, labour markets and welfare programmes means typologies focused on past (industrial) forms of work organisation are no longer plausible approaches to capturing complex non-standard employment and workforce diversity issues.…”
Section: Inputs From Welfare State and Gender Studiesmentioning
confidence: 73%