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The original Equality Act was developed by U.S. Representatives Bella Abzug (D-NY) and Ed Koch (D-NY) in 1974. The Equality Act of 1974 (H.R. 14752 of the 93rd Congress) sought to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and marital status in federally assisted programs, housing sales, rentals, financing, and brokerage ...
The Citizen Equality Act of 2017 is a draft piece of legislation proposed by former 2016 American presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig. The act was the centerpiece of Lessig's campaign platform, encompassing his plans to improve political equality including campaign finance reform, expansion of voting access, and revised districting laws.
Equality Act 2006, an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, a precursor to the Equality Act 2010; Equality Act 2010, an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, with the same goals as the four major EU Equal Treatment Directives; Equality Act (United States), a bill in the United States Congress that would ban discrimination on the basis of ...
Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928; Sex Discrimination Act 1975, amended by the Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act 2002; See also the Employment Equality Regulations covering sexual orientation, religion or belief and age. Northern Ireland has a similar pattern of 'separate' equality legislation.
The bill died in June 1974 but a similarly named bill would later be introduced in the 115th United States Congress on May 2, 2017. [24] In the early 1990s, supporters of the legislation decided to focus on employment. Rep. Gerry Studds introduced the Employment Non-Discrimination Act on June 23, 1994. [25] The legislation failed in 1994 and ...
The Equality Act 2010 [1] (c. 15), often erroneously called the Equalities Act 2010, is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during the Brown ministry with the primary purpose of consolidating, updating and supplementing the numerous prior Acts and Regulations, that formed the basis of anti-discrimination law in mostly England ...
Definition Of “Federal Civil Rights Law”.—For purposes of this Act, the term “Federal civil rights law” means any Federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex or gender, including title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.), the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000a et seq.), the Fair ...
Equality of outcome, in which the general conditions of people's lives are similar; Substantive equality, Equality of outcome for groups; For specific groups: Gender equality; Racial equality; Social equality, in which all people within a group have the same status; Economic inequality; Equality Party (disambiguation), several political parties