Up to 43% of LGBT employees say that they’ve experienced discrimination in the workplace because of their sexual preferences, even though ¼ of them haven’t made their sexual preferences known.
For instance, a Whatever you may think about whether Americans should have the The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning.The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning.Discussion of news topics with a point of view, including narratives by individuals regarding their own experiences In a trio of cases heard in October, the Supreme Court weighed whether discrimination against LGBT people should be legal. Growing Up LGBT in America. In a review of thousands of peer-reviewed studies, the “The research we reviewed makes it crystal clear that discrimination has far-ranging effects on LGBT health,” said Nathaniel Frank, director of the What We Know Project, an online research portal that aggregates existing peer-reviewed LGBT research. In a review of thousands of peer-reviewed studies, the What We Know Project, an initiative of Cornell’s Center for the Study of Inequality, has found a strong link between anti-LGBT discrimination and harms to the health and well-being of LGBT people. “And those consequences are compounded for especially vulnerable populations such as people of color, youth and adolescents, and transgender Americans.”The research team screened more than 11,000 titles and read more than 1,300 peer-reviewed studies in order to identify those that addressed the question, “What does the scholarly research say about the effects of discrimination on the health of LGBT people?” Among the key findings identified by the report:The report is relevant to debates currently unfolding nationally about whether to ban discrimination or, alternatively, allow a “license to discriminate” through religious exemptions from discrimination law, Frank said. Sex, sexual orientation and gender; Equality, non-discrimination and racism; This report presents select findings from FRA’s 2019 survey on LGBTI people in the EU and North Macedonia and Serbia. Unfortunately, many hardworking LGBT professionals face discrimination, unemployment, wage gaps and a lack of legal protections just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. “Whatever you think of what the law should say about anti-LGBT discrimination, this research makes indisputable that it inflicts great harm on the LGBT population, and gives policymakers and individuals tools to reduce those harms.”Focusing on public policy debates around inequality, the What We Know Project connects scholarship, public policy and new media technology.“The goal is to bring together in one place scholarly evidence that informs LGBT debates, so that policymakers, journalists, researchers and the public can make truly informed decisions about what policies best serve the public interest,” Frank said. LGBT Discrimination in the Workplace Statistics [2020] LGBT People of Color Face More Discrimination When Applying For Jobs The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, along with NPR and the Harvard T.H. A The extensive evidence of the harms of discrimination is cause for grave concern. HRC’s report, Growing Up LGBT in America, is a groundbreaking survey of more than 10,000 LGBT-identified youth ages 13-17. Our research team at the The stakes of these findings are high: If the presence of stigma, prejudice and discrimination harms LGBT people — and the research shows that it does — learning how to reduce those harms may be a matter of life and death.