The Equality Act 2010 recognises both ‘marriage and civil partnership’ and ‘sex’ as protected characteristics. The reference to ‘sex’ as a protected characteristic is a reference to being a man or woman of any age. The protection available is confined to people who are married or are ci...
The focus of this article is on direct discrimination, which is defined in section 13(1) of the Act as follows: A person (A) discriminates against another (B) if, because of a protected characteristic, A treats B less favourably than A treats or would treat others. The protected ...
Sex is legally defined and is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act. "Gender" (on it's own) is not legally defined and it means different things to different people. For some people it's a polite way of saying sex. For others it means the belief that everyone has an...
Define sex criminal. sex criminal synonyms, sex criminal pronunciation, sex criminal translation, English dictionary definition of sex criminal. n. A criminal sexual offense, such as rape or sexual abuse, that is identified by law as especially inimical
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Sex Discriminationmeansdirect discriminationor unjustified indirect sex discrimination because of the protected characteristic of sex, asthose termsare defined in the 2010 Act; Sample 1Sample 2 Sex Discriminationmeansdiscrimination on the basis of sexincluding on the basis of sex stereotypes, sex characte...
We sexed birds in a molecular laboratory at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. We extracted DNA from the basal tip of collected body feathers (as efficient as extraction from avian blood [61]) using a commercial kit, Sherlock AX (A&A Biotechnology, Gdynia, Poland). Of the extracted DNA te...
The observation thatestradiol induces calcium-dependent NOSshas several important implications: An increase in release of NO from the endothelium woulddecrease vascular tone and contractility, events that are characteristic in pregnancy. Heterogeneity among tissue endothelium regarding theeffects of estrogen ...
During the entire course of study, all plants received seven beads of granular nutricote 13:13:13 N:P:K fertilizer (Chisso-Ashai fertilizer, Sun Gro Horticulture, Bellevue, WA, USA) and were protected from pests as needed. Sex expression and phenotype data Sex expression was scored on each ...
as cognitive representations (Ito & Urland,2003,2005; Knutson et al.,2007). From this point of view of cognitive psychology, a primary sexual characteristic makes no difference, if not semantic, from a secondary one or from male, female, or unisex clothing (Carruthers et al.,2006; Tooby ...