Table 3 Operating definitions employed in the diversity analysis
Axis of difference | Operating definition |
|---|---|
Culture | the totality of the ideas, beliefs, values, knowledge, and way of life of a group of people who share certain historical, religious, racial, linguistic, ethnic and/or social backgrounds |
Gender | the manner in which a society defines and constrains the array of socially constructed roles and relationships, personality traits, attitudes, behaviours, values, relative power and influences based on a differential basis of being a ‘woman’ or ‘man’ |
Geography | the physical and social places in which various activities happen that are shaped by actions, processes, and other powerful happenings occurring both within and beyond them |
Lifecourse Stage | the sequence of socially defined events and roles that individuals enact over the progression of their life from birth to death |
Material Resources | the tangible goods and consumables and the means by which they are purchased, wherein an absence of these resources can result in material deprivation |