A year ago I wrote
Corporations, unfortunately, have bought into mainstreaming homosexuality. A report says 138 major U.S. Corporations earned the top rating of 100 percent from the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for homosexual issues. That's up from 101 companies the year before. Here's the top-ranked list of homosexual friendly companies.
Today a new report has been issued with the headline "'Gay-friendly' companies up 41%." According to the report:
Another 57 corporations have been added to an annual list of the nation's "gay-friendly" major businesses, an increase of 41 percent over last year.
For the sixth year, Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual-rights group, released its Corporate Equality Index of businesses earning a perfect score of 100.
The score is based on
employers' treatment of "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender" employees. It measures factors such as non-discrimination policies, diversity training and benefits for domestic partners and transgender employees.
An unprecedented 195 major corporations received a perfect score, compared to just 13 companies when the index began in 2002. Also, for the first time, a majority of rated firms – 58 percent – provide employment protections on the basis of "gender identity."
Among the companies new to the list this year are Allstate Insurance, Marriott International, Macy's, Mastercard, Yahoo! and Waste Management Inc.
All this in spite of the fact, as mentioned previously, that change for homosexuals is possible.