🏳️🌈 To mark the end of #PrideMonth, The Equity Index reflects on the incredible work carried out by Stonewall in creating the Global and UK Workplace Equality Index (WEI). Read below 👇
Despite progress in the last few years and decades, LGTBQ+ people continue to face #discrimination at their workplace, limiting their opportunity for success:
🚫 One in five LGBTQ+ people were the target of negative comments at work
🚫 Over a third feel they need to hide who they are at work
🚫 One in five feel that being LGBTQ+ limits their job opportunities.
To respond to the discriminations faced by LGBTQ+ people at work, the Workplace Equality Index provides employers with an overview of the lived experience of their staff and a benchmark to measure their progress on #inclusion in the workplace. Here’s how:
✔️ Anonymously surveys and summarises employees’ experiences and opinions
✔️ Evaluates employers on different areas of employment practice and policy
✔️ Compares organisations’ data to sector and regional averages
✔️ Provides in-depth feedback and voluntary initiatives.
Over the years hundreds of organisations signed up and became Top 100 LGBTQ+ Employers, proving the Workplace Equality Index’s capacity to ensure organisations introduce policies and action plans protecting and supporting LGBTQ+ people.
Today, it remains as relevant as ever, as it strives to include and consider new issues into its assessment criteria. As part of the 2022-2024 road it has placed more emphasis on non-binary and bi inclusion, disabled LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ people of colour and included criteria around maintaining a focus on LGBTQ+ inclusion in dispersed workplaces.
➡ If you work at an organisation with over 200 employees based in the UK and you are seriously committed to achieving progress on LGBTQ+ #equality, become a Stonewall Diversity Champion by applying to the UK Workplace Equality Index. Read more information here: https://lnkd.in/dxVwgNM5
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3moWonderful!! Such a testament to our culture of inclusion and winning together ! Great job!