Diverse by Design
Dealing with diversity in the workplace is the current and most urgent challenge for employers and employees alike. Increasing legislation is placing a greater demand on employers to ensure that discrimination is avoided. In less than a lifetime society has changed. Language, behaviour and procedures that were once common place in our culture have all now been declared unacceptable.
For many people it is not easy to change their attitudes and bahviours to fit with what we now understand to be a better way of relating to each other.
Our attitudes to the nine characteristics of the Equality Act 2010 - age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation - have all developed through the culture in which we grew up.
We all found the workshop to be very informative, relaxing and encouraging with everyone joining in. Ruth had real life, believeable examples, which we all related to.
Director, Housing Association