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Gender Review Template
The purpose of a gender review is to assist you to promote equality of opportunity for males and females within the workplace. This assessment process links to the Gender Action Plan developed in support of the ‘Women in Local Councils’ Initiative.
Fair employment legislation requires employers to collect monitoring information on community background and on gender. This information forms the basis for your review under Article 55 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (NI) Order 1998. This means that your organisation will already have information on the gender composition of the workforce. An analysis of this information would include considerations as to whether, for example there are particular job groups that are more likely to be filled by men or women, or whether part time employees are concentrated in particular job-groups. Based on these considerations you may then determine whether there are any positive action measures that would be appropriate.
The report follows the structure of the Article 55 Review and includes a number of sections to assist you to review your employment pattern, trends and practices. Additionally a section has been added to provide a template for the collection of data to assess the gender balance among elected members within councils.
