[News] [USA] HRC, CAP, Williams Make Public Their Research On LGBT Workplace Discrimination

[Stephanie Stevens]

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HRC, CAP, Williams Make Public Their Research On LGBT Workplace Discrimination

Posted by Chris Geidner | May 7, 2012 8:25 PM


Today, the Human Rights Campaign, Center for American Progress and
Williams Institute -- none of which are known as aggressive, left-wing
groups -- made public a memorandum and hundreds of pages of research
on LGBT workplace discrimination to help push the case for the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act but also for the presidential
executive order sought to ban sexual orientation and gender identity
discrimination by federal contractors.

The memorandum states in part that "[a] main theme of this research is
that employment discrimination is a persistent and pervasive problem
for LGBT workers. Forty-two percent of LGB workers report experiencing
some form of discrimination on the job, as do an astounding 90 percent
of transgender workers."

The research dump from CAP and HRC -- both of which are seen as close
allies of the administration -- comes at a time when the White House
is facing criticism on multiple fronts for failing to meet the aims of
LGBT organizations, donors, advocates and activists on workplace
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and relationship-recognition
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issues.

READ the research here
<http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/05/pdf/lgbt_eo_research.pdf>
(pdf).


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