The ‘Is Wales Fairer?’ Report

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:38 pm on 27 November 2018.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 1:38, 27 November 2018

We've appointed an equality champion to work with our apprenticeship providers in order to do that, and the Minister has been working very hard to ensure that we get very good representation from all groups of protected characteristics in particular. There is a wider society issue at play in the gender segregation, so you see very many more women in social settings, very many more men in hard engineering settings, and that's a wide social construct across UK society. We have been running a number of campaigns, and I'd just like to highlight the This is Me campaign, around gender stereotyping, to try and get the message out there that people should try to be the person they want to be and not something that's predetermined by their sex, in particular, or any other characteristic. If the Member hasn't seen that campaign, I recommend it to him—it's been one of the most successful we've had in terms of reach. We remain absolutely committed to working very hard on eliminating gender stereotyping, and therefore gender inequality, from Welsh society.