Governing Diversity

Abstract

This chapter contextualises previous discussions of the UK GRA within UK equality and diversity law and policy more broadly. Over the last decade in the United Kingdom five pieces of legislation have been passed in relation to gender and sexuality: the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act (2000); the Adoption and Children Act (2002); the GRA (2004); the CPA (2004) and the Equality Act (2006, 2010). As illustrated in Chapter 3 in respect of the GRA, new legislation based on issues of gender and sexuality equality follows on from the HRA (1998). Conversely, the passing of the HRA cannot be separated from a post-1997 culture in which notions of ‘equality’, ‘diversity’ and ‘citizenship’ became articulated anew — concepts which are central to recognition politics.