Sex/Gender
EHRC Equality Act (2010) protected characteristic definition - EHRC statement: Protecting people from sex and gender reassignment discrimination (4 April 2022):
Under the Equality Act people are protected from sex discrimination on the basis of their legal sex. This means that a trans woman who does not hold a Gender Recognition Certificate is legally male and is treated as a man for the purposes of the sex discrimination provisions, and a trans woman with a Gender Recognition Certificate is treated as a woman. The sex discrimination exceptions in the Equality Act therefore apply differently to trans people with and without Gender Recognition Certificates.
EHRC: Gender Pay Gap: The gender pay gap is the difference in average pay between the men and women.
Online resources:
- Academic-Women-Here-St-Andrews-2017 (PDF, 7,793 KB)
- Academic Women Now: Experiences of mid-career academic women in Scotland (2016) (PDF, 4,218 KB)
- Good Gender Equality Practice (day-to-day working)
- Sex/Gender in the Curriculum
- Supporting Staff Suffering Domestic Abuse
- Pregnancy and Maternity
- Gender Staff Mentoring
- Universities Scotland Taking action to achieve gender equality for staff webpage
- Pronoun guidance
- Sex/Gender specific awareness dates
- St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies (StAIGS)
- UK Gov: Travel and safety advice for women travelling and living abroad including links to other organisations