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Hate Crimes

These statistics are a little out of date; sadly, they've got worse!                                        
  What we have to do . . . is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.  
         Hillary Rodham Clinton

Facts and Figures

Nationally, in 2006-07, police reported 5,619 hate crimes in which someone was injured,
4,350 hate crimes without injury, and 28,485 cases of racially or religiously motivated harassment.

There were also 3,565 cases of criminal damage related to hate crimes.

The typical hate offender is a young white male (most homophobic offenders are aged 16-20,
and most race hate offenders under 30).

The majority of hate crimes happen near to the victim's home while they are going about their
daily business, and an offence is most likely to be committed between 3pm and midnight.

 Most hate criminals live in the same neighbourhood as their victims.

Although domestic violence is chronically under reported, research estimates it:

* accounts for 16% of all violent crime 

* will affect 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men in their lifetime

* 77% of victims of domestic violence are women

* has more repeat victims than any other crime
(on average there will have been 35 assaults before a victim calls the police)

* on average, two women are killed every week by a current or former male partner

* one incident of domestic violence is reported to the police every minute

 If it desirable to

* help those whose educational attainment still falls behind

* provide culturally appropriate health services

* improve equality in security and justice

* extend protection against religious discrimination

* help young people grow up with a sense of belonging

* help immigrants integrate into our communities

it would be impossible to do so if we did not have numbers, figures, head counts,
statistics to determine who, where, when, how many.

Gender
Women were more likely to be working part-time than men at every level, regardless of their mode of study and qualification. For example among the other undergraduate qualifiers, 20% of female part-time qualifiers were working part-time compared to 2% of men. The difference between the proportion of men and women working part-time was the smallest amongst full-time first degree qualifiers where 5% and 3% of women and men worked part-time, respectively.

Almost one in five of the country's biggest employers are breaking the law by paying women significantly lower wages than their male colleagues, according to research by the Equal Opportunities Commission. A study by the commission of 870 employers, all of whom have reviewed their pay structures to check if they are paying equally, found that 16% are unlawfully discriminating against their female workers by paying them less than men to do the same job.

The EOC said that the true proportion was likely to be higher as these organisations were among the more enlightened employers, having voluntarily undertaken pay reviews. Jenny Watson, chair of the commission, told the Guardian: "It's bad enough that 16% have found a pay gap that could be the subject of legal challenge following their equal pay review - but even these figures mask the true extent of the problem".

The EOC's survey also reveals that the government is likely to miss a 2008 target designed to tackle discriminatory pay against women because employers are dragging their feet in conducting internal reviews of the pay gap between male and female workers. Only 34% of large employers have conducted a review of salaries. The government's target is for 45% of large organisations to have reviewed pay by 2008.

Last year the pay gap between men and women was 17% for full-time workers and 38% for part-time workers, compared with 20% and 41% respectively five years ago in 2000.

Much of this is explained by women choosing to take career breaks to have families or opting for lower paid jobs - so-called occupational segregation. But a proportion of the gap is still attributed to employers discriminating against women.

Sexism in UK workplaces on the rise

07 September 2006 15:37This article first appeared in Personnel Today magazine.

Sexism in the workplace is on the increase, with almost three out of four (72%) of women claiming they have been bullied because of their gender.

A survey of 2,067 female employees by legal services firm Peninsula found that women in 2006 feel more victimised at the office than they did in 2002, when the survey was last carried out.

When asked if they had ever felt intimidated at work by a fellow employee or a member of management because of gender, 72% of women said yes, compared to 67% in 2002.

The survey shows that most incidents go unreported, with only 8% of respondents saying they would tell their boss if they were harassed. Four out of five (81%) said they would not say anything.

More women than ever believe that being female harmed their chances of career progression (82%) in 2006, compared to 78% in 2002.

It also appears equal opportunities legislation is still failing to have a serious impact on male-dominated office culture.

When asked if, in their experience, they believe there is male bias in the workplace, 85% said yes, compared to 82% in 2002.

Peter Done, managing director of Peninsula, said policies regarding equal opportunities need to be included in contracts of employment and communicated to staff throughout their time with the company if businesses want to avoid costly court cases.

"Tribunals are increasingly looking at written policies and procedures enforced by employers, and will almost certainly find an employer to be failing in their duty of care if they do not have a written and well-publicised equal opportunities policy," he said.

"Tribunals are won in the workplace not the courtroom, and as such, employers need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they did everything in their power to prevent any harassment from occurring."

Visibly ethnic women four times more likely to be jobless

Ageism has a dramatic, detrimental effect on older people but this is often not acknowledged.
We want to highlight this as a major issue that needs to be addressed in order to ensure the fair treatment of older people.

Some of these situations may be familiar to you:

Michael Millar