Re-examining workplace equality: the capabilities approach (original) (raw)

T he primary focus of this article is a paradox fundamental to many approaches to workplace equality: why do the traditionally disadvantaged so frequently feel that such actions do little to addres s the material reality of their experiences of discrimination, unfair treatment and marginalisation? Our interest here is not in those organisations that pay lip service to addressing inequality. Rather it concerns those employers who for the right reasons, such as being a genuinely good employer, valuing difference and seeing that equality is morally right, still fail to generate actually fair or `felt fair' equality.