For anyone who works in the civil service please consider contacting your department’s HR to make representations on the use of “gender identity” rather than “sex” on the pages on discrimination and also at the end for equalities monitoring purposes.
In 2017, the same questions were asked about “gender identity” and “gender identity matching with assignment at birth.”
I’ve asked my HR dept to explain how this impacts the data on monitoring progress on eliminating ‘sex based discrimination’ as it it only sex that is a protected characteristic under the EQA 2010 at s.4.
My employer has a huge pay gap between males and females above HO, which is compounded and perpetuated by the lack of pay progression. Also more women are in junior grades (but admittedly are at the top of the scales because they’ve either been stuck in junior grades by a variety of reasons, which includes personal choice).
I’m hopping mad about this. I was last year but didn’t get anywhere. The difference is this year that I’ve banded together with other women in my department to ask this same question.
HR have told me that they will refer this to the Cabinet Office who are responsible for the People Survey. If others escalate across the CS then they have to hear our concerns.
The CS is an inclusive employer. They didn’t need to take this step to make everyone feel included. By doing so they’ve made me feel the CS doesn’t recognise my rights as a woman.
I’ve deliberately avoided my union as my union backs TWAW blindly. I’m seriously considering leaving the union after the TUC vote.