Equality Reviews

Makes you take time to think and reflect on discrimination in the work place

Think it was interesting and it covered, everything that was relevant. I learned things I didn't know, and it was explained in a really straight forward way, and it wasn't boring. I think it's so important to learn about how we view others, and try to be mindful of how others may feel, by what we say.

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

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This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Asking people's pronouns is discriminatory in itself – I have lesbian friends who have recently been offended to be asked this, purely because they have short hair and don't dress like the current stereotypes dictate women 'should'. Another friend has ben repeatedly distressed by people assuming she's a trans-identifying male, purely because she is larger than the norm for females and has a relatively deep voice. The training earlier states stereotypes are harmful, but this notion of 'if people look a bit different to the stereotypical norm, assume they need to be asked' is massively offensive to some people. Moreover, we are NOT "assigned a sex at birth"- sex is determined at conception and can be observed by pre-natal scans.

This was great, thank you! Really glad to work for a company who prioritise such training and values. Was very pleasantly surprised to learn something new about accessibility (I've trained with the Centre for Accessible Environments, but didn't know disablist was a word!! Ate some humble pie…) Only suggestion is to emphasise that gender is important to some [go trans rights!] but others might prefer little-to-no reference to it [equal workplace etc]. Thanks again!