Protected Characteristics

What does discrimination mean?

• Being treated the same

• Being treated unfairly

• Being a criminal

Choose all the characteristics that are protected under the Equality Act 2010.

• Being poor

• Disability

• Age

• Ginger hair

Can employers treat you differently because of your religion?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

Values, beliefs, ideas and characteristics passed from one generation to the next:

• culture
• assimilation
• customs
• ethnicity

The process of assuming that everyone in the same ethnic, racial or cultural group act the same, share the same beliefs or attitudes: a particular group is the same:

• ethnicity
• ethnocentric
• prejudice
• stereotyping

What is diversity?

• love

• variety

• hate

• patience

Is the definition of diversity

• Happiness is being diverse.

• The state of being diverse; variety.

• The state of being happy.

• There is no definition of diversity.

What is Prejudice?

• Judging someone by your own standards.
• Judging someone based on a biased opinion.

Equality and diversity in the workplace means...

• freedom from discrimination, offering equal opportunities to all and encouraging good working relationships.
• treating everyone the same despite differences in appearance, abilities and beliefs.

Unfair treatment of a person or group linked to the nine protected characteristics is called

• prejudice

• stereotype

• discrimination

• bias