Exploring Equality and Diversity in the Workplace Report 2022

Exploring Equality and Diversity in the
Workplace
(Attitudes towards women in the workplace)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................1
PART A: SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS..........................................................................1
Challenges (Local and Global)...............................................................................................1
Consistent between data sources............................................................................................2
Existing regulation.................................................................................................................2
Other reasons for challenges..................................................................................................3
Impact of the challenges.........................................................................................................3
PART B: EDUCATIONAL TOOLKIT.....................................................................................3
Reason for using this format..................................................................................................4
Toolkit for creating awareness...............................................................................................4
A toolkit of organizations.......................................................................................................6
PART C: LITERATURE REVIEW AND REFLECTION.......................................................6
Literature review....................................................................................................................6
Reflection...............................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................10
APPENDIX..............................................................................................................................13
Part A:..................................................................................................................................13
Part B:...................................................................................................................................14

List of figures
Figure 1: the Gender gap in employment.................................................................................13
Figure 2: Employment in the UK.............................................................................................13
Figure 3: Attitude towards women...........................................................................................14
Figure 4: Training template......................................................................................................14
Figure 5: Campaign for women empowerment.......................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Equality and diversity are involving many things about respect for the staff members
considering the age, gender, race and cultural background. The implementation of regulations
and acts related to diversity at the workplace is having a positive impact on the performance
of organizations but lack of monitoring and attitude towards women is affecting the brand
value of companies. The report will analyze attitude towards women at the workplace and
focus on the protection characteristics considered by the organizations. Moreover, the report
will compare local and global data for analyzing the impact of protection characteristics and
develop the employee manual to develop awareness about the unconscious bias. In the end,
the report will reflect on data analysis and provide a review of the literature to overcome the
unconscious bias with recommendations.
PART A: SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS
The world is encouraging equality and diversity at the workplace and looking to
empower women but lack of monitoring and control over the issues of women the situation is
not improving. There are numbers of claims related to harassment, discrimination, and
victimization as well as bullying at the workplace. However, there are many policies and
protection characteristics presented and implemented by the leading organizations to
overcome the issues but biasness at the workplace is affecting the effectiveness of women.
According to analysis, women are taking active participation at a workplace from 30 years
and earning more bachelor degrees than man but there are less salary and promotion offered
to them at the workplace (Maddrell et al., 2016). In the current scenario, the organizations are
taking initiatives for increasing the gender diversity and setting the target for leaders but
gender gaps in hiring and promotion are affecting the positive attitude towards women at the
workplace.
Challenges (Local and Global)
Women continue to encounter the challenges in the workplace after the
implementation of the protected characteristics and policies that proposed for maintaining
equality and diversity. According to analysis, the major challenges that are harming the
equality of women at the workplace involve equal pay, gender bias in promotion and role
offering, sexual harassment and unsupportive manager as well as ego clashes. These are
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