After today’s lecture on Inclusion and Equality, my eyes have been opened to the world we live in today.  Using the wider reading provided, I feel like that helped tie up any lose ends in my head that I had about this subject.

We live in a place where the Equality Act had to be produced and put into action but it wasn’t obvious enough to just be a decent human being and treat everyone equally.  However, this act helps tackle discrimination and avoid anyone being left out or treated unfairly in the workplace. Similar projects have also been put into practise in schools, like ‘the buddy system’. This allows children to have a ‘buddy’ to help and assist them so no one in excluded or treated differently.

The impact of inclusion and equality on our society, is that people can now go to work or school and not be afraid to be treated differently because they possess one of the nine characteristics that the Equality Act aims to protect [age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex; sexual orientation]. This is a huge step to the way things used to be in the past where people could treat people who were ‘different’ however they wanted with no repercussions or consequences.