2005 HRC Corporate Equality Index
Sep. 20th, 2005 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisOur LGBT employee group co-ordinator at work circulated a PDF file of HRC's latest corporate equality index. My own employer has improved over last year but still earns less than a 100% rating.
Looking through the tables, I was surprised how low some major corporations rank still. I wasn't surprised that Daimler Chrysler, Ford and Toyota ranked 100%, but was shocked that Nissan was dragging at the bottom of the list with a score of only 29.
Almost a dozen large financial firms scored 100%, but Morningstar and Franklin Templeton don't even have nondiscrimination clauses in their policies.
Pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer ranked 100, but Bayer only 29.
Retail firms Best Buy, Borders, Estee Lauder, Replacements, SC Johnson & Son, Sears, Walgreens and Staples all scored 100, but Radio Shack, Rite Aid and Meijer were all bottom-feeders. All that could be said about Meijer (score 14) in the report is that they weren't currently an active sponsor of anti-LGBT activities!
I find it slightly ironic that HRC offers an affinity Visa card via Providian Financial, an organization which scores only 86, admittedly an improvement over last year's 71.
More info at: http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Press_Room&CONTENTID=28963&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm
Looking through the tables, I was surprised how low some major corporations rank still. I wasn't surprised that Daimler Chrysler, Ford and Toyota ranked 100%, but was shocked that Nissan was dragging at the bottom of the list with a score of only 29.
Almost a dozen large financial firms scored 100%, but Morningstar and Franklin Templeton don't even have nondiscrimination clauses in their policies.
Pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer ranked 100, but Bayer only 29.
Retail firms Best Buy, Borders, Estee Lauder, Replacements, SC Johnson & Son, Sears, Walgreens and Staples all scored 100, but Radio Shack, Rite Aid and Meijer were all bottom-feeders. All that could be said about Meijer (score 14) in the report is that they weren't currently an active sponsor of anti-LGBT activities!
I find it slightly ironic that HRC offers an affinity Visa card via Providian Financial, an organization which scores only 86, admittedly an improvement over last year's 71.
More info at: http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Press_Room&CONTENTID=28963&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm
