UK Employment Equity Policies and Their Transnational Recipients

Diane Chilangwa Farmer

Chapter 6 in Black Women in Management, 2013, pp 113-138 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Over the past 40 years, the British government has introduced laws aimed at creating and responding to change in society. From the first Race Relations Act (RRA) back in the 1960s to the vital steps towards equality for women in the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Act in the 1970s, Britain today can justifiably be identified as a nation with aspirations and policies to promote equality and civil rights for all. However, while all these laws remain at the heart of public policy, unfair practices, prejudices and discrimination sadly continue to persist. Critics further argue that these policies, though aimed at eliminating patterns of inequalities, can also act as a smokescreen behind which discriminatory and unfair practices thrive (Ahmed, 2007; Bradley and Healy, 2008;Hoque and Noon, 1999; Liff and Dale, 1994). Others have gone so far as to refer to these policies as ‘empty shells’ which “contain nothing of substance or value to the victims of discrimination” (Hoque and Noon, 2004:482).

Keywords: Black Woman; Research Participant; African Woman; Career Progression; Empty Shell (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137335432_6

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