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Gender

Gender covers men (including boys), women (including girls) and transgender people.  Legislation covering gender includes the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA), Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999, The Equality Act 2006, which is an amendment to the SDA 1975 and the Gender Equality Duty (April 2007). 
 
The Equality Act 2006 created a Gender Equality Duty for the public sector.  This Act places a legal duty on us to:
 
  • Eliminate unlawful discrimination and harassment
  • Promote equality of opportunity between men and women
 
To meet the general duty Eastbourne Homes has a specific duty to: -
 
  • Produce a Gender Equality Scheme identifying its gender equality goals and our actions to meet them;
  • Monitor and review our progress;
  • Review the scheme every three years;
  • Publish, and regularly review an Equal Pay Policy, including measures to address promotion, training and development;
  • Undertake and publish gender equality impact assessments of our functions and services.

Gender and Housing

Eastbourne Homes customer profile by gender & age
(based on data collected from 2715 customer audits, summer 2006)
 
Women aged 60 and over *            948
Women aged under 60                  1190
Men aged 60 and over                    768
Men aged under 60                         680
 
* Eastbourne has the highest ratio of women to men in the country.

Census 2001

On Census night in 2001, there were 890,000 adult residents, aged 16 and over, living in communal establishments in Great Britain: 406,000 men and 483,000 women. Educational establishments, which include students’ halls of residence, formed the single largest category overall, with equal numbers of residents from both sexes.

However, there are substantial differences between the sexes living in other types of establishment. There were around 17 times as many men as women in prisons and over seven times as many men in defence establishments.

Over half of women in communal establishments lived in residential care and nursing homes and the majority of these women (87 per cent) were over state pension age. There were two and half times as many women in residential care and nursing homes compared with men: 269,000 women and 104,000 men.