Anti-discrimination laws by themselves have proven ineffective at countering discrimination against women and workers with caring responsibilities. This paper recommends ways that anti-discrimination laws could be made more effective by combining them with tools of information such as guidance materials. It examines the possible reasons for non-compliance and how different types of guidance materials could help address each of these compliance barriers. Ultimately, however, to achieve equality, organisations have to look internally and produce local and contextual information about how discrimination manifests and can be addressed, and this requires more than the provision of information by external agencies.
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