“Tom and his younger brothers as they grew up, went on playing with the village boys without the idea of equality or inequality (except in wrestling, running and climbing) ever entering their heads, as it doesn't till it's put there by Jack Nastys or fine ladies’ maids.”, (Thomas Hughes, from Tom Brown’s Schooldays, 1857).
Evidence from the wider world (outside of work) indicates that being different can result in a range of inequalities. Despite efforts by politicians and governments to address inequalities, the gaps between the haves and the have-nots, seem only to have grown wider.
At work, ‘equal opportunities’ is a hot topic, and rightly so. It is illegal in the UK to discriminate on grounds of sex, race or disability. More recently, it also became illegal to discriminate on grounds of age.
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