Klarsfeld, Alain, Ng, Eddy, Booysen, Lize A.E., Christiansen, Liza Castro, and Kuvaas, Bård (2016) International and comparative perspectives on diversity management: An overview. In: Klarsfeld, Alain, Ng, Eddy S., Booysen, Lize, Christiansen, Liza Castro, and Kuvaas, Bård, (eds.) Research Handbook of International and Comparative Perspectives on Diversity Management. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, United Kingdom.

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[Extract] International literature on diversity and equality started to slowly emerge in the early 2000s with contributions based on country by country contributions on equal employment opportunity (Agocs, 2002) and comparative research (Jain et al., 2003 ; Agocs and Osborne, 2009) about equality legislations. These first contributions that attempted to stretch beyond North America underlined that there were a variety of models of employment equity legislations, some more focused on quotas and outcomes, such as in India and Malaysia, some more focused on process changes, goals and timetables, such as in Canada and the USA. They also underscored that when it came to outcomes, i.e., impact of equality legislation on the gaps between women and men, or between majority and minority groups, the situation was that of a ‘half-full, half-empty’ glass with still very much room for improvement for women, or other disadvantaged groups, whose definitions varied from country to country (Catholics in Northern Ireland, Bumiputras in Malaysia, Dalits in India, etc..).

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