WHY does one see so many job vacancies (usually in the public sector) where the advertisers state they are "striving to be an equal opportunities employer."

Surely, it is up to them to make a decision that they are such employers. Why are they only striving?

KEITH REYNOLDS, Hindle Street, Darwen.

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