Barriers to Diversity in Film – A Research Review – Aug 07
Barriers to Diversity in Film – A Research Review – Aug 07
Barriers to Diversity in Film – A Research Review – Aug 07
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university courses, and other tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g which provides skills related <strong>to</strong><br />
work. The new law makes it unlawful <strong>in</strong> most circumstances for an<br />
employer <strong>to</strong> treat people less favourably than younger colleagues on<br />
the grounds of age. But the new law provides limited protection for<br />
people over 65, particularly when it comes <strong>to</strong> recruitment and forced<br />
retirement.<br />
2.5.4 Multiple identity and equality legislation<br />
Official approaches <strong>to</strong> equality are seen <strong>to</strong> divide us up by ‘race’,<br />
ethnicity, gender, age, disability, religion and sexuality. Therefore<br />
people are treated with<strong>in</strong> the system as black or gay or a woman,<br />
rather than as one person (Mirza and Sheridan 2003). The legal<br />
discourse on equalities arguably cuts across our natural multiple<br />
identities as experienced <strong>in</strong> daily life. In reality we experience our<br />
gendered, racial and other identities <strong>in</strong> a cont<strong>in</strong>uous flow of one<br />
through the other (Brah 1996; Mirza 1997; Mirza and Sheridan 2003).<br />
This ‘<strong>in</strong>tersectionality’ currently characterises our official equalities<br />
debate. ‘Intersectionality’ is the systematic rationale with<strong>in</strong> the legal<br />
discourse that addresses the artificial separation of our comb<strong>in</strong>ed<br />
racial, gendered and other identities (Crenshaw 1993: UN 2000).<br />
Multiple identities are a lived reality and it is important that people are<br />
seen as ‘holistic <strong>in</strong>dividuals’ not be ‘objectified’ <strong>in</strong> terms of<br />
preconceived political and social categories (Mirza and Sheridan 2003).<br />
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