Dear Berry,
Thanks for the information. However it is useful to remember, as we are
putting our Race Equality Policies together towards the approaching May 31st
watershed, that language, especially relative to the General and Specific
Duties' requirements, can wittingly or unwittingly be detrimental to
certain racial groups.We therefore need to remember this, as we begin to
mainstream race equality in all our institutional functions.
All comments are most welcome.
Regards
Mannie.
Mannie Kusemamuriwo
Policy Adviser: Ethnicity & Cultural Diversity
Equality Challenge Unit
3rd Floor, Tavistock Place
London WC1H 9RA
Tel 020 7520 7060
Fax 020 7520 7069
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-----Original Message-----
From: Berry Dicker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 04 April 2002 15:14
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Subject: Language policy
Dear Colleagues,
You may recollect my request to know if your HEI had an EO language
policy. I said I'd let you have the outcome.
I received 15 replies, 7 said yes, they had a policy, and 4 replied saying
no. The rest made comments or observations demonstrating commitment or
awareness but not a policy.
One said their statutes and ordinances had been revised to have gender free
language in 1988 and this had spread to other documents by custom and
practice. Another said 18 months ago the EO forum had requested that all
documents and publications should be reviewed for gender bias but nothing
much had happened. Another said they felt they should have one but did not.
I was also sent this quote: "The heightened awareness of language exhibited
by such groups as gays and
feminists is the intelligent response of the exploited or powerless" (Dick
Reith)
My thanks to all those who took he time to reply. Berry
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