Job prejudice exposed

AGEISM, sexism and racism are all still rife in the UK jobs market.

Researchers posing as job seekers found discrimination against older job seekers is worse still if they are black or female.

A series of fictitious applications were made for real job vacancies to test the chances of gaining an interview for people of different age, sex and ethnicity.

The results revealed the younger white British male candidate was 16% more likely than the 50-year-old white British male to secure an interview; 18% more likely than the 50-year-old white British female; 22% more likely than the 50-year-old black British male; and 29% more likely than the 50-year-old black British female.

In the research by Anglia Ruskin University, the younger white British male was also offered interviews for jobs that had higher wages.

Jason, who works at Sight Scotland Veterans Centre in Paisley, is working his way through the Monros – Scotland’s highest peaks

He said: “I edit the footage and show the veterans when I come back, and they are saying it is absolutely unbelievable ”

Noreen Smith, a former army nurse who has

“I have been going around as many Munros as I can so they can come with me I am starting with the centrally located ones, in and around Crianlarich, like Ben More and Stob Binnein

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Dr Patsy Irizar, from The University of Manchester, who led the work, said: “The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened existing ethnic inequalities in health, and responses must focus on tackling the drivers of these inequalities, including structural racism and racial discrimination ”

TRIBUTES have been paid to Baroness Masham, a former Paralympc star and the longest ever serving female member of the House of Lords who has died aged 87

After winning medals in swimming and table-tennis at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Paralymics, she was created a life peer in 1970

Much of her career was spent campaigning for disability rights

The Spinal Injuries Association, which she founded in 1974, said it was “devastated to have lost our greatest champion” Lady Masham, born Susan

Sinclair, became a wheelchair user after suffering an injury to her spinal cord in a riding accident in 1958

Two years later, she won a gold medal in the 25m breaststroke at the Paralympic games in Rome, and in 1964 won another in the women’s doubles table tennis in Tokyo

She won a further six silver medals and two bronze across both sports in the three games at which she competed

In 1976 she was the subject of an episode of ITV’s This Is Your Life She sat as a crossbencher and spent a total of 53 years in the House of Lords, more than any other female peer in history

The research into the state of adult care was commissioned by national learning disability charity Hft and Care England, the largest and most diverse representative body for independent providers of adult social care in England. Connecting with 250,000 people across the region

The report also showed the risk of needing intensive care was also higher –South Asian, East Asian, indigenous, Hispanic and black groups all had more than triple the risk than white majority groups

Different patterns of employment, income and housing affected the level of risk faced by people from different ethnicities

For instance, people from ethnic minority groups are more likely to have publicfacing jobs, less likely to be able to self-isolate or work from home, more likely to live in overcrowded housing, and less likely to have access to open spaces