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they should be recruiting you based on your skills and experience, but that's a different discussion.
And I don't think something is true or not according to whether it will fit on a job application.
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they need the stats to demostrate that they are employing without bias. Welcome to the wonderful world of HR
Think yourself it's only gender. My Scottish Hockey registration form this year asks for sexual preference.
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I'd hate to think I was employed to fill a quota rather than for my skills.
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but once you are, they'd have to produce a report showing that their employed staff match the area demographic blah blah blah.
think yourself lucky. You'll be in great demand to fill the 0.00001% asexual cybergoth mentallist demographic.
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so they can go "oh no, we have a lower* proportion of gays playing hockey than in the general population, how do we attract more flouncing marys to scottish hockey?"
* yes, LOL, hockey is a girls game so
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They may be obliged to ask it.
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same as you aren't obliged to fill in your ethnicity, religious views, etc. But it's hardly a secret and if they think they can do something useful with it, good luck toy them.
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That it gives the Office of National Statistics a reason to validate its budget as much as anything else- particularly when it comes to voluntary activities. I can see the point as regards employment as a way of measuring the effects of equal employment legislation, however I think there is a misconception about that too; namely that equal employment legislation merely states that it is illegal to discriminate against people on certain bases and does not actually set quotas which is the way it's often seen.
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