Unless otherwise specified, the following terms as used in this chapter shall have the following meaning:
CITY: | Salt Lake City. |
DISAGGREGATED DATA: | Information collected and analyzed by enumerated categories in order to identify the disparities existing between women and men. These categories shall include, to the extent permitted by law, sex, race, immigration status, parental status, language, sexual orientation, disability, age and other attributes. This data will be collected in a manner that will facilitate intersectional analysis. |
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN: | Any difference in treatment based on race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, place of birth, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial status, age, handicap or disability, or use of support animals, as specified. |
GENDER: | The ways society produces, positions, and polices women and men as "opposite," mutually exclusive, natural categories of persons, and organizes ideas, interactions, and roles on the basis of presumed differences that establish hierarchies between women and men and among people. |
GENDER ANALYSIS: | An intersectional examination of the cultural, economic, social, civil, legal, and political relations between women and men within a certain entity, recognizing that women and men and different aspects of social identify prescribe and proscribe different social roles, responsibilities, opportunities, and needs for people, and that these differences, which permeate our society, affect how decisions, including budgetary decisions, and policy are made. |
GENDER EQUITY: | The redress of discriminatory practices and the establishment of conditions enabling women to achieve full equality with men, recognizing that needs of women and men may differ, resulting in fair and equitable outcomes for both. "Gender equity" shall further mean the redress of discriminatory practices and establishment of conditions enabling all persons identifying as transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming to achieve full equality. |
HUMAN RIGHTS: | The rights every individual possesses that are intended to improve the conditions in society that protect each person's dignity and well-being and the humanity of all people. |
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION: | Any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin, which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life. |
SEX: | The gender of a person, as perceived, presumed or assumed by others, including those who are changing or have changed their gender identification. |
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS: | Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women and girls, including threats of those acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life, including Domestic Violence. |
WOMEN: | All persons who identify with the sex category woman, whether or not assigned to that category at birth. |
WORK OF EQUAL VALUE: | That individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay and that there shall be no direct or indirect gender discrimination in relation to employment conditions including pay, benefits, and total compensation. Work of equal value can be determined by comparing job requirements, such as the level of skill, effort, decision-making, responsibility, and working conditions, as well as any other relevant criteria. (Ord. 43-22, 2022) |