Age as an equality issue / / edited by Sandra Fredman and Sarah Spencer

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.2
• Soggetto topico: Age discrimination - Law and legislation; Age discrimination; Ageism
• Persona (resp. second.): FredmanSandra; SpencerSarah
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction / Sandra Fredman, Sarah Spencer -- 2. Age discrimination : implications of the ageing process / John Grimley Evans -- 3. The age of equality / Sandra Fredman -- 4. Age discrimination in employment : implementing the framework directive 2000/78/EC / Bob Hepple -- 5. Age equality in health and social care / Janice Robinson -- 6. Age equality in access to education / Tom Schuller -- 7. Children's rights for grown-ups / Jonathan Herring -- 8. Age discrimination law : some remarks on the American experience / Lawrence M. Friedman -- 9. Comparative European perspectives on age discrimination legislation / Colm O'Conneide.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Until recently, age discrimination attracted little social opprobrium. However, ageism has now been thrust onto the equality agenda by the spectre of an ageing population. This has led to a range of policies on 'active ageing.' Most importantly, legally binding legislation prohibiting age discrimination in employment will need to be in place by 2006. Remarkably little attention has been paid to the key issues. To what extent is age inevitably linked with declining capacity? What are the central aims of a policy on age equality, and how can these be realised in law? How should law and policy address age discrimination in health, education and employment? What lessons can be learned from the US and Europe? And should young people be dealt with in the same way as older people? This book answers these questions in a series of chapters by experts from a wide range of disciplines. It begins by examining the nature of the ageing process and then turns to a detailed analysis of the concept of age equality. In the light of this analysis, the following three chapters critically assess employment, education, and health. A separate chapter is devoted to discrimination against children. The last two chapters consider the experience in the US, and other European countries."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Age as an equality issue
• ISBN: 1-4725-6279-8; 1-280-80801-2; 9786610808014; 1-84731-058-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823663803321
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