In my expereince, Equalities people are people who can't get a job in HR. And HR people who can't get a job, well anywhere. Only met 2 who were any use in all my time at work. Once went on an equlities course an discovered many new things: It is imposible to change religion. Ever. Men are always stronger and faster than women. So a fat bloke would outrun Paula Radcliffe in a marathon. If you do an exercise which relies on the audience being to the right of the BNP, it doesn't really get going when they turn out to be well adjusted humans to whom making racist coments doesn't come naturally. Still, I bet they had fab biscuits while changing name !