1. The Discrimination Act was established in 1975

2. The Sex Discrimination Act recognises two kinds of sex discrimination, these are:

    Positive and negatice

    direct and indirect

    it doesn't recognise any

    you what?

3. Direct discrimination arises when a person of one sex is treated less favourably than another purely on the grounds of .

4. You have the right to equal pay if:

    you have the same job as a male/female collegue

    if you're 14 years old

    if you're unemployed

    help me please!!!!!!!

5. Facilities at co-educational places of education must be available equally to both sexes.

    True

    False

6. What does EOC stand for?

7. How many points is there to the EOC's campaign?

    3

    none

    7

    8

8. One of these points is to promote equality of opportunity for:

    men and boys

    men and women

    cats and dogs

    mixed race

9. Since the SDA has been introduced, Britain has noticed a drop in discrimination.

10. The Race Relations Act was established in:

    1790

    1968

    1978

    1977

11. The Code of Good Practice for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Promotion of Equality of Opportunity in Employment was established by who?

    Commission for Racial Equality

    The Race Relations Act.

    Both of the above

    None of the above

12. If a person feels they are being treated dfferently on the grounds of the race or ethnicity, then they can take thier complaint to the Code of Practice

    True

    False

13. Racial discrimination is still a major problem, but it is difficult to estimate the amount of racism that takes place in our society, because:

    it would take too long to ask everybody

    it depends if you think their actually being racist

    many people are not openly racist

    racial discrimination is not a problem

14. All of the following are different forms of discriminatory practices: Physical assault, verbal abuse, negative non-verbal communication, excluding people from activities or opportunities.

    True

    False

15. The Race Relations Act, purpose is to irradiate discrimination and promote .

16. During the 1950's/60's there was two waves of immigration which lead to growing difficulties in the UK. This lead very rapidly to a state of racial:

    fairness

    equality

    inquality

    unfairness

17. How many recommendations did the Macpherson Report, published in Febuary 1999, make?

    6

    9

    54

    70

18. Positive action is when discrimination takes place to favour one ethnic minority.

    True

    False

19. When something that appears to be non-discriminating, but actually puts one racial group at a disadvantage, it is direct discrimination.

    True

    False

20. Racism: attitudes and procedures (economic, , social and cultural) which advocate and seek to miantain the superiority of one racial group or groups over others.