Record participation in HRC’s Corporate Equality Index despite right-wing DEI backlash

Despite several large companies publicly abandoning their diversity, equity and inclusion policies, advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), has seen a record participation in its latest Corporate Equality Index (CEI), which will be published early next year.

HRC president Kelley Robinson made the announcement on CNBC’s Squawk Box, telling host Andrew Ross Sorkin: “We have over 1,400 hundred companies participating, representing over 21 million employees across this country.”

In addition, the HRC Foundation has set up an email inbox, workers@hrc.org, for employees at companies that have stepped back from DEI efforts to anonymously share experiences of discrimination and the inclusion policies that still exist.

What is the Corporate Equality Index?

The CEI is a national bench-marking tool that measures policies, practices

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