2016). Big kudos to Apple for their recent strides, not only in reporting the numbers but also in taking real action, apple has stepped up to the plate and shown tremendous progress in their diversity and inclusion, (M. Biro, 2016). Diverse teams make innovations possible, grace a software engineer said that: “if we want a product to appeal to and work for a big group of people, it needs to be built by a diverse group of people”, (Apple, 2018).

UK legal framework

Following 1970’s acts further discrimination legislation was passed relating disability, transgender, religion, belief, and sexual orientation; however, in 1974 the race relations act came into effect, which made discrimination on the grounds of race, ethnic origin, and color. Recently amended acts were made on extended pre-existing anti-discrimination laws, to make them compliant with later directions on those areas.

The equality act 2010 also includes the public sector equality duties to promote equality not only stop discrimination. The equality act 2010 defines and described different forms of discrimination:

– Associative discrimination: where discrimination is against a person because they have an association with someone with a particular protected characteristics

– Perceptive discrimination: Is discrimination against a person because the discriminator thinks the person possesses the characteristics, even if they do not ,in fact, do so, this kind of discriminations is applied to age, race, religion or belief and sexual orientation.

– Indirect discrimination: Occurs where a provision, criterion or practice (PCP) applies to everybody, but the PCP has:

1- A disproportionate impact on people with a particular protected characteristic
2- It is to the disadvantage of a person with a protected characteristic
3- It is is not a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim