Advocating for Workplace Equality: Assess Your Workplace
If you’re planning to advocate for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender fairness in your workplace, start by evaluating your workplace climate and by determining avenues to implement inclusive change.
- Is the workplace overtly hostile, or are openly GLBT people accepted and respected? Are there openly GLBT people in senior management? Has there ever been a case of anti-GLBT harassment? If so, how did management handle it?
- If your company has diversity training, are human resources personnel open to including a segment on sexual orientation and gender identity? Refer them to diversity trainers with expertise in this area. You might also give managers a copy of HRC’s State of the Workplace Report, an overview of how other corporations are dealing with these issues.
- Consult HRC’s directory of Diversity Trainers.
- Report: State of the Workplace
- Are you or your co-workers covered under a collective bargaining agreement? Explore the role of unions in negotiating equal protection.