Howard Ungerleider Recognized with Out & Equal’s Champion Award for Commitment to LGBT Workplace Rights
October 09 2015 - 8:45AM
Business Wire
Recognition underscores Dow’s leadership in driving fundamental
progress for inclusion and equality
Recognizing his commitment and significant contributions to
advancing workplace equality, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates
recognized Howard Ungerleider, chief financial officer and
executive vice president, The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW),
with the Champion Award at the 2015 Out & Equal Workplace
Summit in Dallas, Texas, on October 8.
The Champion Award, one of Out & Equal’s annual “Outie”
awards, recognizes a person who has played a pivotal role in
championing equal treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) employees on the job and has shown a unique
commitment to LGBT workplace rights. Throughout his nearly
decade-long tenure as the executive sponsor of Dow’s LGBT and ally
employee resource group, Ungerleider’s vision, leadership and
influence has resulted in significant progress both inside and
outside of Dow.
“Since assuming oversight of the industry’s longest-standing
LGBT employee resource group, Howard has led the way towards full
inclusion of our colleagues both on the job and in the communities
where we operate,” said Andrew N. Liveris, Dow‘s chairman and chief
executive officer. “He leads with absolute resolve – removing
barriers, rallying those around him and setting the standard for
all to emulate.”
Under Ungerleider’s leadership, Dow has positioned itself as a
national leader on LGBT issues, working with the public and private
sectors in advocating for greater inclusion at both the state and
federal level, including continued support for federal employment
non-discrimination and standing in opposition of recent
discriminatory state legislation in Indiana, Louisiana and
Texas.
“An inclusive workplace, and for that matter an inclusive
society – that welcomes and respects everyone – is one that enables
its citizens and families to thrive, businesses to prosper and
economies to grow,” Ungerleider noted in his acceptance remarks at
the event. “Inclusion is the true catalyst for success – and quite
frankly, it is just the right thing to do.”
Dow offers best-in-class practices for LGBT inclusion in the
workplace, including equal benefits to same-sex partners for
everything from health, dental and life insurance to bereavement
leave, relocation and dual career assistance. Dow also recognizes
survivor benefits for LGBT colleagues under its pension plan and
provides transgender benefits.
The company has maintained a 100 percent rating on Human Rights
Campaign’s corporate equality index, a national benchmarking tool
on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT employees, for
10 consecutive years and last year was ranked by Amsterdam-based
Workplace Pride Foundation as one of the world’s “Top-5”
LGBT-inclusive employers.
Dow was previously recognized by Out & Equal in 2013 and
2010 with its Workplace Excellence and Significant Achievement
awards, respectively.
Out & Equal Workplace Advocates is the world’s premiere
nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving LGBT workplace
equality. The annual Outie Awards recognize individuals and
organizations who are leaders in advancing equality for LGBT people
in workplaces globally.
Other finalists for the 2015 Champion Award were Michael
DeAngelis, Intel Corporation; Cynthia Armine-Klein, First Data
Corporation; and Beth Brooke-Marciniak, EY.
For more about the Outies, please visit outandequal.org.
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passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The
Company is driving innovations that extract value from the
intersection of chemical, physical and biological sciences to help
address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the
need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and
increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market
driven, industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced
materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad
range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in
approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as
packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2014,
Dow had annual sales of more than $58 billion and employed
approximately 53,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than
6,000 product families are manufactured at 201 sites in 35
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