International approaches to advance equality: insights from six countries

Footnotes

1. Annex H provides a list of the legislative instruments included in this review. Annex I provides a bibliography of the literature accessed by the research team.

2. Annex C details the protected characteristics for each country.

3. Regulatory Policy: Belgium - OECD

4. Belgium: gender pay gap, by sector 2021 | Statista

5. The Institute for the Equality of Women and Men (gender) and The Inter-Federal Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Discrimination and Racism, known as Unia, for the remaining protected characteristics.

6. Workforce Data – Gender Representation in the Public Service 2021 – Te Kawa Mataaho

7. Joint call for Scotland’s colleges and universities to address inequalities | Equality and Human Rights Commission (equalityhumanrights.com)

8. Equality and diversity (sfc.ac.uk)

9. Fair Work action plan: becoming a leading Fair Work nation by 2025 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

10. Public sector gender pay gap reporting | Audit Scotland (audit-scotland.gov.uk)

11. Measuring the Gender Pay Gap – Ministry of Women

12. Gender Pay Gap Measurement and Analysis Guideline

13. Annex G Evidence of Effectiveness by Country

14. Meaning the Maori Language

15. (Law Aimed at Monitoring the Application of the Resolutions from the World Conference on Women Held in Beijing in September 1995 and at Integrating the Gender Perspective into the Whole of the Federal Policies, 2007)   

16. Monitoring and enforcement | Equality and Human Rights Commission (equalityhumanrights.com)

17. Regulators, inspectorates and ombudsmen need to have due regard to the aims of the general equality duty in their functions. For example, this could mean inspectorates ensuring that their assessments of performance of public sector bodies include consideration of performance on equality. EHRC Guidance 2014

18. Full list of legislation and guidance examined at Annex H

19. South Africa – See Annex F

20. Advancing Equality - Terminology Guidance – 2023 (Scottish Government)

21. Advancing Equality - Terminology Guidance – 2023 (Scottish Government)

22. Advancing Equality - Terminology Guidance – 2023 (Scottish Government)

23. Advancing Equality - Terminology Guidance – 2023 (Scottish Government)

24. Advancing Equality - Terminology Guidance – 2023 (Scottish Government)

25. Advancing Equality - Terminology Guidance – 2023 (Scottish Government)

26. Advancing Equality - Terminology Guidance – 2023 (Scottish Government)

27. Advancing Equality - Terminology Guidance – 2023 (Scottish Government)

28. Advancing Equality - Terminology Guidance – 2023 (Scottish Government)

29. We accessed relevant parliamentary and government websites to source relevant legislation. mWe also conducted a rapid literature review seeking references to relevant legislative instruments.

30. We detail the search terms used in Annex D.

31. We identified contact names via official websites, and we located central information points such as ‘info@’ email address. This led to a snowball effect with contacts providing additional points of contact within, and outside, organisations.

32. OECD – Over the Rainbow? The Road to LGBTI Inclusion. How does Sweden compare? June 2020.