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The Top 10 Companies for GLBT Employees
October 18, 2006
To ascertain this Top 10, we examined
questions in our survey relating to GLBT issues, including recruitment, domestic-partner
and work/life benefits, employee-resource groups and supplier diversity. We
also factored in the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index as well
as a thorough review of each company's Web site to evaluate its stated commitment,
through words and images, to the GLBT community.
Consider these statistics about
the Top 10 for GLBT Employees:
All
10 of them have active programs to recruit for GLBT employees, compared with 69
percent of the Top 50 and 21 percent of the bottom quarter of survey
respondents. There were 256 participants in the survey.
All
10 of them offer adoption assistance, compared with 88 percent of the Top 50 and
78 percent of the bottom quarter of respondents.
All
10 of them offer dependent-care benefits for childcare or eldercare, compared
with 96 percent of the Top 50 and 84 percent of the bottom quarter of
respondents.
All
10 of them offer domestic-partner benefits for same-sex partners, as do all the
Top 50 and 80 percent of the bottom quarter of respondents. The Human Rights
Campaign reports 49 percent of U.S. companies offer these
benefits.
All
10 of them, as well as all the Top 50 and all the bottom quarter of respondents,
have nondiscrimination policies that include sexual orientation. The Human
Rights Campaign reports 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies and 63 percent of
all companies offer this as well.
All
10 of them have employee-resource groups, compared with 94 percent of the Top 50
and 80 percent of the bottom quarter of respondents. All 10 of them use these
groups for recruitment, compared with 96 percent of the Top 50 and 78 percent of
the bottom quarter of respondents. A senior executive is a member of the group
at nine out of these 10 companies, compared with 85 percent of the Top 50 and 70
percent of the bottom quarter of respondents.
Two
of these top 10 (20 percent) track businesses owned by gays and lesbians in
their supplier-diversity database, compared with 13 percent of the Top 50 and
5.7 percent of the bottom quarter of respondents.
Here are the Top 10 Companies for
GLBT Employees:
No. 1: Xerox
Also No. 4 on the Top 10 Companies for
African Americans list and one of DiversityInc's 25 Noteworthy
Companies.
A longtime national leader of
GLBT issues, Xerox tracks gay-and-lesbian businesses in its supplier-diversity
database, includes sexual orientation as well as gender identity in its
published EEO statement and boasts of GLBT awards in the employment section of
its Web site. The company has a 100 percent HRC rating.
No. 2: JPMorgan Chase
Also No. 11 on The DiversityInc Top 50
Companies for Diversity list, No. 3 in the Top 10 Companies for Supplier
Diversity, No. 6 in the Top 10 Companies for Latinos and No. 3 in the Top 10
Companies for Executive Women.
Also a long-time national leader,
the bank's supplier-diversity page includes its certification by the National
Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. It has emphasized its desire to reach gay
and lesbian borrowers and its nondiscrimination policy includes gender identity.
The company has a 100 percent HRC rating.
No. 3: AT&T
Also No. 4 in the Top 10 Companies for
Recruitment & Retention, No. 4 in the Top 10 Companies for Executive Women,
No. 4 in the Top 10 Companies for Latinos, No. 5 in the Top 10 Companies for
Supplier Diversity, No. 2 on the Top 10 Companies for African Americans list and
one of DiversityInc's 25 Noteworthy Companies.
The company, formed by the merger
of SBC Communications and AT&T, has a strong affinity group for GLBT
employees and has made substantive philanthropic donations to the community. The
company has a 100 percent HRC rating.
No. 4: Hewlett-Packard
Also No. 9 in the Top 10 Companies for
Supplier Diversity, No. 1 on the Top 10 Companies for Asian Americans list, and
No. 31 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity
list.
This company has a strong Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride group and includes gender identity and
expression on the nondiscrimination page of its Web site. The company has a 100
percent HRC rating.
No. 5: Bank of America
Also No. 25 on The DiversityInc Top 50
Companies for Diversity list and No. 8 on the Top 10 Companies for Supplier
Diversity list.
With a strong GLBT-employee
group, Bank of America has a long history of commitment to community. The bank
has sponsored local events and the national
Human Rights Campaign dinner for several years. It also has financially helped
with Pride celebrations and LGBT expositions. A PRIDE credit card returns income
to community organizations.
No. 6: Ernst & Young
Also No. 24 on The DiversityInc Top 50
Companies for Diversity list.
The accounting giant has an
active GLBT-affinity group and has made substantive philanthropic contributions
to such groups as the LA Gay & Lesbian Center and Out & Equal. The firm
has a 100 percent HRC rating.
No. 7: SunTrust Banks
Also No. 28 on The DiversityInc Top 50
Companies for Diversity list.
The bank has sponsored Gay Pride
events to show its community support and strongly emphasizes gender identity and
no discrimination based on orientation. The bank has a 100 percent HRC
rating.
No. 8: Deloitte
The accounting firm, which
recently conducted a national survey of the GLBT community with Lambda Legal,
long has been an advocate of equality in the workplace regardless of orientation
or gender identity.
No. 9: Cingular Wireless
Also No. 15 on The DiversityInc Top 50
Companies for Diversity list, No. 2 on the Top 10 Companies for People With
Disabilities list, No. 1 on the Top 10 Companies for Latinos and No. 9 in the
Top 10 Companies for Executive Women.
With a strong GLBT-employee
group, GLBT-Pride, the company has been recognized by The Advocate and other gay-and-lesbian
organizations for its support.
No. 10: Safeco
The Seattle
insurance giant has marketed to the GLBT community, has a GLBT-employee group,
and has made substantive philanthropic donations to the community.
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