DiversityInc.com – By Daryl C. Hannah
For the eighth year in a row, companies on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list and DiversityInc’s 25 Noteworthy Companies list are among the companies earning a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index survey, a national rating that grades Fortune 500 companies and national law firms on their LGBT efforts.
This year, 36 of The 2009 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity (72 percent) achieved a 100 percent rating on the HRC’s 2010 CEI. This is up 64 percentage points from 8 percent in 2001, when the first CEI list was published.