Equality report slams divided Britain

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Source: The Guardian

The most comprehensive study ever conducted into inequality in Britain has revealed a country in which boys struggle academically, disabled children face shocking levels of bullying and progress towards pay equality for women has stalled.

How Fair is Britain?, a definitive 700-page report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission on discrimination and disadvantage in British society, charts inequalities from birth, through education, into the workplace and on to retirement.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the EHRC, said the study revealed that while British attitudes towards issues of race, gender and sexuality are now "light years" ahead of previous generations, the reality on the ground has yet to fully catch up. In consequence, there are deep divisions in Britain's classrooms, different experiences of the criminal justice system and a stubbornly large pay gap between men and women. In full-time work, women are still paid 16.4% less than men, a figure that rises to 55% in the finance sector.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/10/equality-report-britain-divided

[cowcommander]

1. and yet they're still light years ahead of us

Britain looks like a utopia compared to our levels of inequality... :(

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2. Agreed! The USA is not even close!