Thread by @NWNorfolkWRN

We recommend reading @CCriadoPerez's Invisible Women, about the ways policy development & impact assessments fail to assess the impact on women.

Equality Impact Assessments matter.

We have asked @TeamQEH to correct their EIAs to include the 4 missing protected characteristics.

Despite now having the correct list of protected characteristics in V3 of the @TeamQEH Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy, the policy & EIAs do not cover those with the protected characteristic of sex as it uses the word “gender” instead of sex. >

#IWD2023 #SexMatters

. @TeamQEH was informed of these errors first in 2020 and has failed to correct the omissions and use of gender and transgender in the #Equality, #Diversity and #Inclusion policy and equality impact assessments ( EIAs). >

The Equality Impact Assessment format is still incorrect, @TeamQEH :

1) It refers to "Gender including transgender". The protected characteristic is gender reassignment, not "transgender". >

2) Sex is a different protected characteristic from from gender reassignment, which should be assessed separately in @TeamQEH Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs).

3) EIAs omits #pregnancy and #maternity (despite #women being 77% of staff). Marriage and civil partnership is the fourth missing protected characteristic.

@TeamQEH was advised of these omissions in 2020.

#InternationalWomensDay2023

We wrote to the @TeamQEH CEO on 2 Jan, & again today, asking for immediate action to correct these inaccuracies in all policies, assessments & reports in line with the #EqualityAct & revise their EIAs.

@SteveBarclay @KemiBadenoch @jamesowild @trussliz
#Equality #SexMatters

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