Policy & Practice: The barriers that prevent an equal society

28 March 2006 2 mins read

So are we getting more equal? Probably, but the more pertinent questions are what kind of inequalities persist and what new ones could be emerging.

This review was commissioned by the Prime Minister and has, under the chairmanship of Trevor Phillips of the Commission for Racial Equality, been asking people what our priorities should be.

And what did it find? We are a more socially mobile society than we used to be when the socioeconomic status you were born into determined with "ironclad certainty" your life chances. But the focus of its attention was on non-socioeconomic factors. And there is too much evidence of "severe penalties for not being male, White, straight or able-bodied".

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