Making equality count = Irish and international research measuring equality and discrimination [printed text] / Laurence Bond, Editor ; Frances McGinnity, Editor ; Helen Russell, Editor . - Dublin : Liffey Press, 2010 . -  ; 24cm.
ISBN : 978-1-905785-89-6

Class number:	323
Abstract:	Ireland's equality legislation prohibits discrimination in employment and in access to goods, services and facilities on nine discriminatory grounds: gender, marital status, family status, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion and membership of the Irish Traveller community. In 2000, building on extensive provisions at EU level to promote equality between men and women, the EU adopted two new Equality Directives which prohibit discrimination based on racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation in the workplace and, as far as racial and ethnic origin is concerned, in other aspects of daily life. A further new directive on equal treatment - prohibiting discrimination on grounds of age, disability, sexual orientation and religion or belief outside the employment sphere - is being negotiated. There is a clear need for policymakers to make use of sound evidence on equality and discrimination, in order to monitor and evaluate EU and national anti-discrimination laws, policies and programmes and to guide future policy and legal development. This book will examine international experience in measuring equality and discrimination and will highlight good practice developed in Ireland to date. "Making Equality Count: Irish and International Approaches to Measuring Equality and Discrimination" is jointly organised by the Equality Authority, the Economic and Social Research Institute, the Central Statistics Office and the UCD Geary Institute and is co-funded under the EU PROGRESS Programme.
Contents note:	1. Introduction : making equality count / Laurence Bond, Frances McGinnity, Emma Quinn and Rebecca King O'Riain; 2. Experience of discrimination in Ireland : evidence from self-report data / Helen Russell, Frances McGinnity, Emma Quinn and Rebecca King O'Riain; 3. Measuring discrimination : what do field experiments of markets tell us? / Judith Rich; 4. Are Eamon and Eithne more employable than Hardeep and Heike? Evidence from a field experiment in Ireland / Frances McGinnity, Jacqueline Nelson, Peter D. Lunn and Emma Quinn; 5. Social psychology of discrimination : theory, measurement and consequences / Ananthi Al Ramiah, Miles Hewstone, John F. Dovidio and Louis A. Penner; 6. Racism and colorism in post-racial societies / William Darity Jr.; 7. Assessing unequal treatment : gender and pay / Mary Gregory; 8. Disability and social inclusion in Ireland / Brenda Gannon and Brian Nolan; 9. Multiple disadvantage : Evidence on gender and disability from the 2006 Census / Dorothy Watson and Peter D. Lunn.