Corporate Equality Index 2016: Criteria Updates & Toolkit for Success
These were the criteria updates to earn a 100 in the 2016 CEI, which remain in place for the current 2018 CEI survey.
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Corporate Equality Index Archive
HRC's Corporate Equality Index report, released each fall, provides an in-depth analysis and rating of large U.S. employers and their policies and practices pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and…
Corporate Equality Index Resource Guide
The CEI Resource Guide is a comprehensive instructional and reference accompaniment to the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) Survey. The CEI Resource Guide covers all of the sections of the CEI…
Corporate Equality Index: About the Survey
The HRC Corporate Equality Index survey is the primary source of information for the Corporate Equality Index rating. The survey also helps gauge trends and best practices among all businesses…
Corporate Equality Index: Rating Criteria 1.0 (2002-2005)
From 2002 to 2005, the first HRC Corporate Equality Index rated employers on seven criteria that remain the basis for today's criteria. The original criteria were guided in part by…
Corporate Equality Index: Rating Criteria 2.0 (2006 - 2010)
The Corporate Equality Index objectively measures how equitably large, private-sector businesses in the United States treat their lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees, consumers and investors. For the 2007-2011…
Corporate Equality Index: What Businesses are Rated and How to Participate
The HRC Corporate Equality Index is an annual measure of how equitably large private businesses in the United States treat their lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees, consumers and…
Corporate Equality Index: Why the Criteria Change
Updated on 06/19/19
The Corporate Equality Index serves as a road map to corporate diversity leaders to help them stay on top of the evolving field of policies and practices…
Discrimination Against Transgender Workers
At least one in five transgender people surveyed report experiencing employment discrimination. In six studies conducted between 1996 and 2006, 20 to 57 percent of transgender respondents said they experienced…