The Met are considering it, I believe. The difficulty
there is that without a baseline - such as you get for
ethnicity in the Census - it'd be difficult to
quantify whether the group in subject was fairly
represented within the recruited population. And yes,
"Other" could be allowed, though at present "Not
specified" is preferred:
http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/gdsc/html/frames/PersonGenderCurrent-2-0-Release.htm
And I have been asked the question before.... training
course, had same discussion with them
--- Roland Perry <[log in to unmask]>
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> 20:05:12 on Mon, 23 Aug 2004, GM Polato
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >The explanation may lie in the Race Relations
> >(Amendment) Act 2000 and the statutory duty to
> promote
> >race equality. This cannot be done without
> monitoring
> >the ethnicity of pupils
>
> Does this logic mean that employers should ask if
> new employees are
> homosexuals, as that's the only way they can monitor
> whether their
> policy of not discriminating by sexual orientation
> is working?
> --
> Roland Perry
>
>
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