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Equality Bill

Categories: Civil/Human Rights, Disability, Great Britain, Income/Poverty, Marriage/Family, Religion/Ethics, Statistics

http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2009/rp09-042.pdf

Describes an attempt by the British Parliament to harmonize existing law which outlaws various types of discrimination into a more coherent whole. Proposes a new legal framework for equalities legislation, and includes a section on statistical aspects of social inequality, including age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, ethnic minorities, religion, sexual orientation and gender pay gap. House of Commons Library Research Paper 09/42.

 
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