It seems it’s too much to ask government departments to get it right. There are 20 non-ministerial departments. At the time of writing (October 2020), 18 of them were advertising vacancies. Many use the same recruitment system, but several are different. All of them ask for the ‘gender’ of the applicant; not one asks for their sex. Some use the terms female and male, even though those the are the correct terms for sex, but others use man and women, presumably because someone thought those were gender terms and even though they are defined in the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the protected characteristic of sex. Almost all allow the applicant to ‘self-describe’ their ‘gender’. None mention the Equality Act 2010 to explain why they are gathering this information. None of them list the protected characteristics or inform the applicant of their rights under the Equality Act. Click on the department name or scroll down. Click on each screenshot to enlarge.
The Charity Commission Competition and Markets Authority Crown Prosecution Service Food Standards Agency Forestry Commission Government Actuary's Department Government Legal Department HM Land Registry HM Revenue & Customs
The National Archives National Crime Agency Office of Rail and Road Ofgem Ofqual Ofsted Serious Fraud Office UK Statistics Authority The Water Services Regulation Authority
The following departments were not advertising job vacancies at the time of compilation (October 2020): NS&I Supreme Court of the United Kingdom