1/ Good to see @acas has withdrawn from the Stonewall Diversity Champions scheme. ACAS collects data on the gender pay gap, and all employers with over 250 staff must report this. But they advise firms to collect data on gender identity, not sex thetimes.co.uk/article/stonew…
2/ and people who identify as "non-binary" are omitted from the data. Yet "gender pay gap" reporting was intended to monitor discrimination based on sex. spectator.co.uk/article/Corona…
3/ At the level of the firm, even small numbers of cases misclassified or omitted can skew the data substantially. We need accurate data on sex, and data on gender reassignment (a distinct protected characteristic) could be collected additionally. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
4/ I hope that @acas will reconsider their approach to data collection. Social statisticians have recommended "That publicly funded or mandated data (such as the census or equal pay monitoring data) should always include a biological/natal sex variable." ukdataexperts.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/respon…
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