It shall be the goal of the city to address discrimination against women and girls. In doing so, the city aspires to achieve the principles identified in CEDAW. This Chapter provides for methods in which the city can identify practices and policies and implement changes to help further the following goals of CEDAW:
A. Economic Development:
1. Look for ways to improve the city's commitment to the elimination of discrimination against women and girls in the city in economic opportunities, including, but not limited to:
a. Employment opportunities, including the application of the same criteria for selection in matters of employment and the right to receive access to vocational training for nontraditional jobs;
b. Promotion, job security and all benefits and conditions of service, regardless of parental status, particularly encouraging the appointment of women to decision-making positions, city revenue generating posts, and managing commissions and departments;
c. Equal renumeration, including benefits and equal pay with respect to work of equal value;
d. Protection of heath and safety in working conditions, including supporting efforts not to purchase sweatshop good and slavery-produced goods, regular inspection of work premises, protection from harassment and violent acts in workplaces, and reasonable accommodations for pregnant and nursing mothers;
e. Encourage and, where possible, support the necessary social services to enable all people to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public life, in particular, through promoting the establishment and development of an accessible, affordable, and qualify network of child care facilities, paid family leave, and family-friendly policies;
f. Promote access to safe and affordable housing and transportation; and
g. Encourage the use of public education and all other available means to urge financial institutions to facilitate women's access to bank accounts, loans, mortgages, and other forms of financial services.
B. Violence Against Women And Girls:
1. Look for opportunities to pursue appropriate measures to prevent and redress sexual and domestic violence and trafficking of women and girls, including, but not limited to:
a. Enforcement of criminal and civil remedies;
b. Seek resources and encourage ways for survivors to receive appropriate protective and supportive services, including, but not limited to medical, counseling, shelter, rehabilitation programs, and hotline services;
c. Provide gender sensitive training for city employees regarding sexual and domestic violence and trafficking of women and girls; and
d. Identify ways for perpetrators of violence against women and girls to receive rehabilitative services.
2. Study how issues of labor trafficking, sexual exploitation and trafficking, and domestic servitude affect the city; and
3. Identify means in which the city can help identify how city construction projects are designed to promote the safety of women and girls.
C. Education:
1. Support schools in the city in delivering access to high quality education; and
2. Develop and manage out of school recreational programs in an equitable manner.
D. Delivery Of City Services:
1. Gender equity shall permeate every level of city operations - as leaders, employers, and service providers; and
2. City services shall be delivered using a gender equity lens. (Ord. 43-22, 2022)
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) |
A. As a tool for assessing the success of the city in implementing locally the principles of CEDAW identified in Section 10.08.010, the chief equity officer shall ensure that each department of the city undergo an intersectional gender analysis and develop an action plan.
B. The intersectional gender analysis shall include:
1. The collection of intersectionally disaggregated data; and
2. An evaluation of gender equity in the city's operations, including budget allocations, delivery of direct and indirect services, and employment practices, and the city's integration of the local principles of CEDAW.
C. After the completion of an intersectional gender analysis, selected departments with the support of the chief equity officer shall develop an action plan that contains specific recommendations on how it will make efforts to correct deficiencies identified in the gender analysis.
D. The chief equity officer shall provide a report on its intersectional gender analysis and department action plans to the human rights commission, the mayor, and the city council.
E. The chief equity officer shall develop a five-year citywide action plan.
F. The five-year citywide action plan shall address how to integrate the local principles of CEDAW, the deficiencies found in the gender analysis and the measures recommended to correct the deficiencies.
G. The chief equity officer shall present the five-year citywide action plan to the human rights commission, the mayor, and the city council. (Ord. 43-22, 2022)
In undertaking the enforcement of this Chapter, the city is assuming an undertaking only to promote the general welfare. The City is not assuming, nor is it imposing on its officers and employees, an obligation, the breach of which creates any liability in money damages to any person who claims that the breach proximately caused the injury. This Chapter does not create any private cause of action. (Ord. 43-22, 2022)