Decade of Progress in Workplace Equality Chronicled in HRC`s 2012 Corporate Equality Index Posted: 12/08/2011 - 14:11 | Retrieved from the Internet on December 15, 2011 by SJ
Change in Scoring Criteria Results in Enormous Advances for Transgender Healthcarehttp://www.echelonmagazine.com/index.php?id=2476&title=Decade_of_Progress_in_Workplace_Equality_Chronicled_in_HRC%60s_2012_Corporate_Equality_IndexThis year's report's findings:
While the inclusion of sexual orientation in non-discrimination policies has become a standard since 2002, the addition of gender identity is now part of the policies of 50 percent of Fortune 500 companies for the first time, a growth rate of 1567 percent since 2002.
The number of Fortune 500 companies offering domestic partnership benefits has increased by 76 percent since 2002.
The greatest strides have come in area of transgender-inclusive healthcare coverage. As a result of new criteria instituted by HRC this year that is a requisite to a perfect score, companies offering comprehensive healthcare coverage to their transgender workers has increased to 207 from 85 last year and 49 in 2009.
