University protected characteristics - spot the mistake

[Sadcister]

So I have just seen an email from a University, sent out to the whole department from the departmental equality and diversity committee.
It's asking students to fill in a survey. This is one of the introductory paragraphs.
Spot the mistake:

"The aim of this survey is to help us understand and improve the student experience. The survey explores your experience, knowledge and views on how the Department of XXX at the University of XXX supports all students, irrespective of their gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, race, partnership status or whether you are disabled, undergoing gender reassignment or are pregnant (Known as protected characteristics: www.ecu.ac.uk/guidance-resources/equality-legislation/)."

details removed obviously

No mention of sex ...

S e x

M&S will not allow you to write sex in communication to them.

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sex

I guess replacing sex with gender, is some kind of IT implemented block on porn?

Well done @Bowlofbabelfish
It's really a trick question though, there are kind of two mistakes...

Definitely annotate the survey and point out the mistakes

It has a whole page asking about gender identity, and if that's the same as your "gender at birth", so the fact that they've mixed these things up is extra ridiculous!

I'm pretty sure universities have 13 protected characteristics

It's like that National Geographic cover of a cluster of people portraying the glorious gender spectrum. A man was included, but not a woman. Seems we need to know our place.

@flumpybear 13?? What are the other 4?

It is so sad when a university, that is supposed to teach the rest of us to the highest levels of knowledge, displays such blatant ignorance.

Belief and pregnancy/maternity are also missing. Let me have another look to see if I can spot any more.

Apologies for the drunk texting. I now see pregnancy.

I'm just bumping this after seeing this (being brave and posting!). This is a link to a template for conference organisers to use.

I know it technically isn't wrong because it doesn't talk about discrimination, only harassment, but come on — including "technology choices" but not sex or pregnancy/maternity?!

Sorry, that's the git link. Try confcodeofconduct.com

I followed the link. It doesn't have any of the problems the OP claims

Which link Gibberty? Mine or the OP's?

I think the one I linked is ridiculous — technology choices/body size/gender expression definitely shouldn't be used to harass anybody, but surely the nine legally protected characteristics should be there too?

People who have no legal background or anything wrote things like that and they just get copied and copied.

Perhaps I'm touchy, but in STEM we're constantly told about the 'leaky pipeline' with women leaving at each stage. It makes no sense to me to not include the characteristics more or less responsible for it in a Code of Conduct...

Gibberty that's not what the OP said. She said the email she received didn't refer to sex. The link was in that email.

Please everyone do complain when you see this. As I said on another thread I complained to the NSPCC when they omitted sex (and gender reassignment as it happens) in a list of PCs and they have apologised and amended it.

Is this the link?
en-us.confcodeofconduct.com/

Yes, sex is missing. There are some specific examples of sexual harassment that are forbidden. Not sure if that's quite enough.

Yes, that's the one thank you

It's anti-harassment, not anti-discrimination I suppose, but would it hurt to add in a couple more characteristics?

I think maybe they have used gender as a synonym for sex as they have gender identity and gender expression (although not reassignment) in there.

Definitely a copy and paste problem here too!
I also care because it had a whole page asking about gender identity etc, so they are trying to treat sex and gender separately, and getting it wrong.
Also... the head of the equality and diversity committee is a prat, who actually makes jokes about making jokes about women using technology, and thinks that's fine...