ASS071-1 Health and Social Care Report 2022

Running head: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ASS071-1
DISCRIMINATION FACED BY WOMEN
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Abstract
As per the report published in 2018, there were more than 66 million people in the United
Kingdom with 33.65 million women and 32.79 million men (UK: Population women and men |
Statista, 2020). Numerous economists observe that the main discrepancies which occur between
individuals on account of gender are sexism or gender disparity. The subject covers several
topics from education to fair work and income opportunities. In reaction to the issues that arise,
the government has enacted numerous laws, mainly based on sex discrimination, on institutional
as well as personal at work. This article aims to elaborate and identify the grounds of general
discrimination which mainly faced by women frequently at the workplace through reviewing
legislation and case laws in this regard.

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Introduction
The modern workforce is made up of people with diverse backgrounds who have various
experiences of life. Although diversity is good in the working atmosphere, it also raises the
probability of discrimination at work. This is still a part of the current business world, however,
to combat prejudice in the workplace several measures have been taken by the government.
Discrimination is considered to be as the privilege of a certain group of individuals over other
persons. In the UK, when an employee treated unfairly in the workplace based on sex, race,
caste, creed, religion, age, colour, sexual orientation, religious belief, disability both mental and
physical then it is called discrimination. In 2010, the Equality Act was enacted in the UK to
protect the rights and interests of the employees from discrimination which brought several
changes in the workplace laws relating to discrimination (Baert 2018). This paper mainly focuses
on the discussion of sexual discrimination faced by women in the workplace with the support of
appropriate legislation and case laws. While discussing the same, it also sheds light on several
steps which have been taken by the UK government to prohibit discrimination from the
workplace.
Discussion
Numerous researchers have been observed that sexual discrimination is difficult to trace
out in the organization. Especially when it is not obvious whether it is going on within the
organization or not. If a person is treated differently because he or she is a man or a woman, then
it is called as sexual discrimination. Both men and women treated unfairly within the workplace.
Even a man can also gain favourable treatment from his employer based on sex. The same thing
also has been observed in the case of the female employee but various statistics in this regard