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The Easy Equalities Issues

Introduction

Of course, these are only easy from a certain perspective.  Is there a better page title we could use here?  They are easy because everybody (more or less) recognizes them and agrees they are issues which need to be tackled if we are to build a more just society.

Our aim here is to say something helpful about the mainstream equalities issues: the ones covered in UK legislation and general liberal sensitivity training courses.  According to the UK Equality Act 2010 it is illegal to discriminate against someone because of (in alphabetic order, to avoid the appearance of any prioritization):

• age,
• disability,
• gender reassignment,
• marriage and civil partnership,
• pregnancy and maternity,
• race,
• religion or belief,
• sex, or
• sexual orientation.

The issues often get blurred, but it is probably helpful to distinguish between the gender equality issues addressed by traditional feminists and the other issues around sex & sexuality.