Guidance • Page 2
Here are all the Sex Matters publications and resource pages that give advice or guidance.
Use the Resources menu to see these filtered by users – employers, employees, MPs, parents, service providers and teachers.
For other types of publications, see our Reports – which include research, analysis, policy recommendations, and surveys done by Sex Matters – and Submissions, which include our letters and consultation responses.
You’ll also find advice and analysis from a range of experts in our webinars.
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Single-sex services: doing an equality impact assessment
If you want to provide a single-sex service for women only (or for men only), an equality impact assessment can help you show that your decision to provide a service for one sex only, or separately for women and men, was evidence-based.
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Single-sex services – providing a women-only service
We explain how charities, public services and commercial businesses can provide a single-sex service for women only (or for men only), with guidance about the Equality Act 2010.
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Getting it right – diversity and inclusion on company boards and executive committees
The Financial Conduct Authority’s proposal for monitoring diversity and inclusion is well intentioned, but flawed. Sex Matters and Legal Feminist outline the practical and legal problems in abandoning sex-based monitoring for the controversial concept of “gender identity”, and suggest a better solution.
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Summary of the Sex Matters guide to pronouns at work
A two-page summary of our guide to what you can and can’t be asked to do.
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The Sex Matters guide to: Pronouns at work
Our briefing for employers and employees thinking about workplace rules and policies – and what is and isn’t legal.
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Understanding the risk of following Stonewall guidance – briefing for employers
The mismatches between current legislation and Stonewall’s guidance on ‘trans inclusion’ that employers need to be aware of.
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Leadership starts with the law – briefing for universities on the Reindorf Report
For universities, student unions and service providers reviewing their policies and considering issues of academic freedom.
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Single-sex services – policy briefing
Our call for clear official guidance on single-sex and separate-sex exceptions in the Equality Act 2010.
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Boys and Girls and the Equality Act – guidance for schools (England and Wales)
This guidance has now been updated – see our new guidance published in April 2022.
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Boys and Girls and the Equality Act – guidance for schools (Scotland)
With Transgender Trend – advice on avoiding unlawful discrimination on issues around sex and gender reassignment. We will be updating the guidance for Scotland soon: until then you may want to refer to our new guidance for schools in England, published in April 2022.
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On toilet provision for men and women – technical briefing
A simple solution to replace ambiguous language and misleading guidance, for the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government.