Equality and diversity: a new approach to gender equality policy in the UK

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Ben-Galim ◽  
Mary Campbell ◽  
Jane Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Gender Equality Policy ◽  
Equality And Diversity ◽  
The Eu

In 2007 the UK established a new single equalities body, to bring together the existing equality Commissions dealing with gender, disability, and race and ethnicity into a Commission for Equality and Human Rights. The promotion and enforcement of ‘equality and diversity’ is one of the three duties of the new body. This paper briefly explores diversity in relation to the theory of gender equality and also examines developments in policy at the EU level, which has provided much of the impetus for change. Our focus is on the policy approach and the tensions that the policy documents reveal about the emphasis on equality and diversity approach, in particular the extent to which attention to gender issues may get lost in the diversity bundle, and the extent to which a focus on the individual may be strengthened over the group.

scholarly journals Issues of Gender Equality and Diversity in Broadcast News Policy

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Widestedt
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Similar Tendency ◽  
National Differences ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Equality And Diversity

Abstract The objective of this article is to investigate the relationship between concerns for diversity and concerns for gender equality in broadcasting companies from Sweden, the UK and the US. This is carried out through analyses of policy documents accessible on the companies’ websites. The contents of the policies and their definitions of diversity are discussed in a context of gender equality and multiculturalism. The concluding results of the study indicate national differences in definitions and applications of diversity, but also, and more importantly, a similar tendency in all three countries to subordinate concerns for gender equality to concerns for diversity.

Noise and Other Environmental Considerations in the Design and Planning of Gas Compressor Stations in the U.K.

1972 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cleveland
Keyword(s):  
Ambient Noise ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Future Design ◽  
Natural Gas Transmission ◽  
Environmental Considerations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Gas Turbine Compressor ◽  
Alternative Designs

This paper briefly outlines some of the considerations taken into account in the design and planning of gas compressor stations for the UK Natural Gas Transmission System. Environmental considerations, and in particular the aspects of noise, play a large part in the design of these stations. The requirements for silencing to meet very low ambient noise levels and the development of gas turbine compressor unit enclosures is dealt with in some detail. The need for acoustically efficient and aesthetically pleasing structures is emphasized. The paper compares some representative alternative designs for individual enclosures with the design of an equivalent building and concludes that for small numbers of units, the individual enclosure is the economic solution. Other aspects of noise, including venting of gas are discussed and future design trends indicated. In the consideration of future designs, ease of maintenance and security are fundamental considerations, together with the need to ensure that noise emitted will not pollute the environment.

Teaching Technology and Business

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 378-382
Author(s):  
Bill Gerrard ◽  
Keith Macrosson
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Similar Degree ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Business Studies ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
The University

Research conducted 25 years ago in the UK established at that time that businesses required able, enthusiastic and broadly educated people who were willing to master quickly a firm's techniques and procedures and to advance to a position of responsibility and leadership. The BSc Honours degree in Technology and Business Studies (TBS) at the University of Strathclyde was designed to meet that requirement by providing students with an understanding of the language of technology and the language of business, and to link these two to provide a fluency in the communication skills used by managers on a daily basis. In an earlier paper Macrosson described the TBS degree, established in October 1974, as a new approach to the education of students wishing to enter industry, commerce or public service. Now, 23 years on from the first intake, this paper briefly outlines the current structure of the course, reviews its overall performance, and extracts the five principal lessons which the authors believe will be of help to those either establishing or reviewing a similar degree. The factual parts of the paper are based on a recently completed survey of the 190 TBS students currently on the course.

Economization of Expert Knowledge about Gender Equality in the European Union

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Elomäki
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Gender Equality Policy ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The article analyzes (i) how the increasing demand for empirical evidence about the economic impacts of gender equality transforms expert knowledge about gender equality in the European Union (EU) and (ii) the implications of these transformations. The article argues that the much-debated discursive economization of gender equality in the EU context is underpinned by the economization of expert knowledge about gender equality—the increasing reliance on mainstream economics to support gender equality claims. This has increased the influence of gender-biased economics knowledge and its modes of knowledge production in EU gender equality policy.

Duality and Fallibility in Practices of the Self: The ‘inclusive subject’ in diversity training

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah N. Brewis
Keyword(s):  
Diversity Training ◽  
The Self ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Practices Of The Self ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Equality And Diversity ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

The concept of ‘inclusion’ has been gaining ground in a field known as equality and diversity work. Scholars have begun to both theorise what this concept means as a normative goal and to critically examine how it is mobilised in organisational practice. This paper contributes to the latter conversation by asking what comes to count as ‘doing inclusion’ at the level of the individual. I examine the practices of diversity training in United Kingdom organisations, in which diversity practitioners seek to transform their trainees into people who will act inclusively toward others, asking: Who is the ‘inclusive subject’ that is being constructed – imagined, sought and legitimised – through diversity training? What are the conditions of possibility that shape the emergence of this subject? And what are the possibilities that this subject affords to marginalised groups struggling for recognition within organisations? The analysis mobilises Foucault’s notions of power/knowledge, discipline, and practices of the self to describe and discuss the performance of inclusive subjectivity in the context of diversity training in the UK. The practices described are found to be facilitated by two key forms of knowledge about how the subject is characterised: duality and fallibility. The discussion of these two forms of knowledge leads us to consider the relations of both discipline and freedom that take place in diversity training.

scholarly journals The Impact of Brexit on EU Policies

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Ferdi De Ville ◽  
Gabriel Siles-Brügge
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
Fundamental Uncertainty ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

While the result of the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU has been the subject of considerable scholarly interest, relatively little has been written on the impact of Brexit on the EU. Where academics have addressed the issue, they have tended to either see Brexit through the lens of European ‘(dis)integration’ theory or focused on its ‘static’ effects, assessing the impact of removing the UK from the EU’s policymaking machinery based on its past behaviour. This editorial sets out the overarching rationale of this thematic issue and introduces some key analytical elements drawn on by the individual contributions. Given that Brexit has so far not set in train major EU disintegration, the focus is on the detailed impact of the UK’s exit across specific policy areas and on problematising the notion that it necessarily implies a more socially progressive turn in EU policies. Our starting point is the fundamental uncertainty surrounding the future EU–UK relationship, and the process of arriving there. This points to the importance of focusing on the ‘dynamic’ impacts of Brexit, namely adjustment in the behaviour of EU actors, including in anticipation of Brexit, and the discursive struggle in the EU over how to frame Brexit. Policy change may also occur as a result of small, ‘iterative’ changes even where actors do not actively adjust their behaviour but simply interact in new ways in the UK’s absence. Several of the issue’s contributions also reflect on the UK’s role as a ‘pivotal outlier’. The editorial concludes by reflecting on how we analyse the unfolding Brexit process and on what broader insights this thematic issue might offer the study of EU politics.

5. The Supremacy of EU Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 140-167
Author(s):  
Nigel Foster
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

This chapter examines the supremacy of EU law from both the point of view of the Union, as understood by the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the point of view of member states. A consensus seems to be emerging from the national and constitutional courts that EU law supremacy is accepted only insofar as it does not infringe the individual rights protection of the national constitutions, in which case the constitutional courts will exercise their reserved rights over national constitutions to uphold them over inconsistent EU law or to review EU law in light of their own constitutions. The changing position of the UK and the EU is also considered including the Brexit referendum result and possible consequences of that.

5. The Supremacy of EU Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Foster
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

This chapter examines the supremacy of EU law from both the point of view of the Union as understood by the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the point of view of member states. A consensus seems to be emerging from the national and constitutional courts that EU law supremacy is accepted only insofar as it does not infringe the individual rights protection of the national constitutions, in which case the constitutional courts will exercise their reserved rights over national constitutions to uphold them over inconsistent EU law or to review EU law in light of their own constitutions. The changing position of the UK and the EU is also considered including the Brexit referendum result and possible consequences of that.

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