Equality at workplace

This document discusses the importance of equality at workplace and provides insights on how to promote it. It defines equality and explores the benefits of having an equal work environment. The document also highlights the steps that businesses can take to promote equality. The topic of gender inequality and its impact on the workplace is also discussed. Overall, the document emphasizes the need for fair treatment, diversity, and inclusivity in the workplace.

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Table of Contents
Equality at workplace................................................................................................................3
Equality in Practice..............................................................................................................3
Voluntary Steps toward Equality.......................................................................................4
Benefits of equality in the workplace.................................................................................4
How can my business promote equality?...........................................................................5
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................5
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Topic: Equality at workplace
Introduction
Equality at workplace is an essential element in today’s world. The report talks about
how an equality can be promoted or enforced at home or offices. It defines as an Inclusive
workplaces behaviour that promotes the principles of fairness, pride, diversity and dignity for
all employees. The major focus of any business should be to promote equality for all
employees and gain comprehensive benefits for the same (Lazzari). The Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission of United states says that, “it is illegal to discriminate against a job
applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including
pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older),
disability or genetic information (roubler.com).”
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Let us define the term Equality; it is a fair treatment of an individual in the
community irrespective of their sexual characteristics, race, disability, belief, nationality, or
age. It is to make sure that each and every individual in the society is given equal growth
opportunities, equal compensation and are accepted with their differences.
Now how do I make sure that my workplace has an equal chance to treat everybody,
As such it is an employer’s responsibility to create an environment which has equality in it,
but as an individual, we should also stand by those who may have discriminated and distant
themselves from equal rights and responsibility. It helps to build better workplace and future.
Equality in Practice: The anti discrimination laws are executed and prepared to fight
against discrimination if happened at workplace. There are two forms of discrimination
namely intended and unintended. The first one is disparate treatment where an individual is
less favorable because they belong to different class and community. It is direct form of
inequality. Another is an indirect form of inequality where a person is given an opportunity
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because he has scored well or has a master’s degree. This is called disparate impact where the
scenario causes unintentional discrimination.
Voluntary Steps toward Equality: The research was conducted by Barbara Risman (a
sociology professor at the University of Illinois) and William Scarborough (doctoral
candidate of sociology) along with one of the behavioral scientist on equal opportunity given
to men and women at workplace. Most of the people who belongs to the generation of baby
boomers believes that women are homemakers and care takers for their family whereas men
are breadwinners. Hence, there are different types of opportunities and pay scale given to
women than male applicant at workplace. Based on the articles and researches, it is observed
that gender inequalities has major impact of at workplace than any other race or cast
discrimination. However, religion and color differentiation is taken place where there is a
diverse work culture (successatschool.org).
Equality at work has never been a cut-and-dry process, but it is one of those essentials
an industry needs to have to build a positive, identical, healthy and good work culture at
workplace. It is important to promote fair process of communication and equal voice of
everyone regardless of their position, pay, nationality, experience, education, gender or race
(Miller).
Benefits of equality in the workplace
An equality policy helps us to promote the business and attract better prospective
applicants in the company. Spreading a word on equality and cultivating a fair culture gives
you good impression in the industry. Equality in diversity enables us to bring all the
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employees from diverse background and field, which helps to take better decision in the
business. it brings up more innovation also because different opinions would be getting for
the same thing. Furthermore, it would enhance intra and intercompany networking along with
team spirit (Ruth and Misra).
How can my business promote equality?
Equality can be achieved through some key behaviours of an individual:
 Identify the essentials of diversity and acknowledge and value individual beliefs,
practices and morals.
 Encourage open hose discussion over the issue and explain it precisely
 Make sure to cultivate a culture with similar process for recruitment, selection,
promotion and training for everyone
 Flexible work scheduling and holidays in order to meet family expectations, religious
holidays, or other extraordinary situation (Laci and Rusi).
Conclusion
We know that the rules are continually evolving, and the civil right is playing major
role in reshaping equality in the workplace. It has designed substantial laws to build equality
at workplace. Moreover, #Me too moment has helped an individual to seek for equality and
justify their existence. There are plenty of issues which are still remaining as it is such as
equal pay and opportunity to be provided, however, and battle is always ongoing. The fair
practices are evolving continuously to promote equality at workplace.
References
Laci, Amarildo and Ilir Rusi. "Equality at Work and Discrimination in Employment and
Occupation." Journal of educational and social work 7.2 (2018): 67-72.
Lazzari, Zach. Definition of Equality in the Workplace. 24 January 2019. 15 April 2019
<https://smallbusiness.chron.com/definition-equality-workplace-14653.html>.
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Miller, Claire Cain. Americans Value Equality at Work More Than Equality at Home`. 3
December 2018. 15 Aprill 2019
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/upshot/americans-value-equality-at-work-
more-than-equality-at-home.html>.
roubler.com. Why Equality in the Workplace is Vital, and How to Achieve It. 23 January
2018. 15 April 2019 <https://roubler.com/au/equality-in-the-workplace/>.
Ruth and Joya Misra. "Gender Inequality at Work." University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
2016.
successatschool.org. What Is Equality In The Workplace? 2017. 15 April 2019
<https://successatschool.org/advicedetails/384/What-Is-Equality-In-the-Workplace
%3F#>.
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