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Sex discrimination in school statisitcs:

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Sex discrimination in school statisitcs:

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Global Campaign for Education (2018)

·  Nearly four in 10 girls reported being made fun of because they are a girl, compared to under one in ten for boys

·  Girls were generally seen as better at ‘soft’ subjects such as languages, history, art and music, and boys better at sports, mathematics and computing

·  Pupils felt that male teachers are ‘more intelligent’ than female teachers, but female teachers were ‘more caring’ than male teachers.

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Direct- Where you have been treated unfairly because of who you are.

Indirect- Where there is a practice or policy that applies to everyone no matter who they are or there ability.

Harrassment- Unwanted behaviour which people may find offensive or makes them feel humiliated.

Victimisation- Where you are treated badly because you have made a complaint about discrimination.

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In England and Wales, the Equality Act applies to all independent and maintained schools, this includes Academies,  maintained and non-maintained special schools (Gov, 2014).

This Equality Act makes it unlawful for a school to discriminate against, victimise, and harrass a pupil or future pupil in the following ways: admissions, the way education in provided, the way benefits, facilities or services are provided for students and by excluding or subjecting a student to other detriment (Gov, 2014).

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Child Law Advice (2018) states that is is unlawful for education providers to treat a student less fairly because of their gender.

However, Child Law Advice (2018) also argue that there is an exception to this particular ‘protected characteristic’ that makes single-sex sports acceptable. It applies to involvement in any sport or other activity which could be competetive, where  physical strength, stamina or physique of the average woman (or girl) may put her at a disadvantage when in competition with the average man (or boy).

Child Law Advice (2018) also argue that it is not completely unlawful for a school to have single-sex classes in a mixed school, as long as the classes are provided to students of both genders

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There were previously 9 pieces of legislation that were all brought together and merged into what we know as the Equality Act today. These included:

the Equal Pay Act 1970

the Sex Discrimination Act 1975

the Race Relations Act 1976

the Disability Discrimination Act 1995

the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003

the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003

the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006

the Equality Act 2006, Part 2

the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007

Equality Human Rights Commission (2019)

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The Equality Act 2010 is a legal obligation and came into force in October 2010 with the aim to  protect people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider world.
It replaced other previous anti-discrimination laws by having one Act instead, making the law easier to understand and giving people better protection in certain situations. It sets out all the different ways in which someone can be unlawfully treated (Gov, 2015).

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Sara Delamont (1980) argued that in the 1980's sexes in school were segregated in many ways, for example toilets, changing rooms, claok rooms and even the playground (Delamont, 1980, p.24.).

Delamont also states that organizaltional arrangements of sexes were so common that they were often taken for granted and seemed invisable (Delamont, 1980, p.25.).

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Sex
Race
Disability
Religion or Belief
Sexual Orientation
Gender Reassignment
Pregnancy and Maternity
Marriage
Age

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Sex as a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010 

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Sex as a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010 

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Equal Human Rights Commision (21 February 2019) states the definition of sex discrimination is where you are treated differently in certain situations because of your sex.

Official definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010 is
"A reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a man or to a woman.

A reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to persons of the same sex."  (Equality Act, 2010)