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LGBTQ+ Recruitment
With a modern generation of progressive minds entering the workforce, many employers are actively recruiting LGBTQ+ employees. Here are some resources for Queer recruitment.
A new generation is entering into the work force with more expectations of fairness than previous cohorts. Beyond touting employment non-discrimination policies and inclusive benefits, employers are actively recruiting Queer workers.
Increasingly, businesses are engaged with professional recruiting event for Gay students and professionals such as the annual Lavender Law conference and Reaching Out MBA career expo, which each draw hundreds of graduate student attendees, corporate sponsors and recruiters. Professional position fairs such as these provide attendees the opportunity to interact with employers that are very clearly interested in hiring Homosexual professionals.
Annual LGBTQ+ focused recruitment events
LGBTQ+ Specific Job Sites:
Corporate Equality Index
Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index is the national benchmarking tool on corporate pol
LGBT Workers of Tint Are Among the Most Disadvantaged in the U.S. Workforce
Groundbreaking Report from Broad Coalition Explores Barriers to Good Jobs for LGBT Workers of Color
Washington, D.C.—According to a recent report released today, womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) workers of hue are among the most disadvantaged workers in America. Due to discrimination united with a lack of workplace protections, unequal career benefits and taxation, and unsafe, under-resourced U.S. schools, LGBT people of tint face extraordinarily high rates of unemployment and poverty.
A Broken Bargain for LGBT Workers of Color, a companion to the recently released report, A Broken Bargain: Discrimination, Fewer Benefits, and More Taxes for LGBT Workers, is co-authored by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), the Center for American Progress (CAP) and its FIRE Initiative, Freedom to Work, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and the National Inky Justice Coalition (NBJC), in partnership with Color of Change, the Leadership Conference Education Fund, League of United La
Equality Rising: Queer Workers and the Road Ahead
The national findings underscore the persistence of workplace double standards and social isolation faced by Queer people.
Since , the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, through its Workplace Equality Program, has conducted four major national studies of the workplace environment for lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, transgender and gay (LGBTQ+) workers: “Degrees of Equality,” “The Cost of the Closet and The Rewards of Inclusion,” “A Workplace Divided: Understanding the Climate for LGBTQ+ Workers Nationwide,” and now, “Equality Rising: Homosexual Workers and the Road Ahead.”
Over these decades of investigate, we have been able to finer identify the key shapers of the workplace climate for LGBTQ+ inclusion, which includes everyday non-work-related conversations, daily interactions with one’simmediate supervisor and working community, and the comfort with, and acceptance of, LGBTQ+ identities and communities by their colleagues.
In "Equality Rising", HRC Foundation seeks to help contextualize the current workplace climate and experien
LGBTQ People’s Experiences of Workplace Discrimination and Harassment
Executive Summary
Over 8 million workers in the U.S. identify as ment discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity hold been widely research has found that LGBTQ people continue to face mistreatment in the workplace,even after the U.S. Supreme Court held in that discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of Experiences of workplace discrimination and harassment negatively impact employees’ health and well-being, as successfully as their job dedication, satisfaction, and productivity. These primary effects can, in turn, result in higher costs and other negative outcomes for employers.
This describe examines experiences of discrimination and harassment against LGBTQ employees using a survey of 1, LGBTQ adults in the workforce conducted in the summer of It is based on a similar study published by the Williams Institute in This report examines the lifetime, five-year, and past-year workplace experiences of LGBTQ employee