With so many initiatives focusing on equality, diversity and inclusion, we often hear about examples of positive action or positive discrimination in the context of employers’ approaches to increasing ...

Women face discrimination every hour of every day, in various forms. From a greater lack of access to equal opportunity and payment in workplace, educational institutions, social discourses and ...

Taking positive action to overcome the effects of past discrimination through training and encouragement is legitimate. Positive discrimination, on the other hand, is illegal. The recent Patten Report ...

Europe should not shy away from positive discrimination as a way to promote women scientists as it will help tackle skills shortages in scientific disciplines, argues the author of a Parliament report ...

'Discrimination' is a dirty word and various types of discrimination have been unlawful since the Race Relations Act of 1965, but can we discriminate between different types of discrimination and ...

We all want to live in a world where people, irrespective of gender, have equal opportunities to channel their talents. A place where everyone has access to privileges like quality education, freedom ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a renowned Genevan philosopher in his famous writing, the social contract decried that, “Man is born free but he is everywhere in chains”, alluding to the fact that people ...

West Yorkshire Police has rejected positive discrimination allegations in the UK press today (10 April) that white British-born candidates have been blocked from applying for jobs as part of attempts ...