Dow Honored for 12th Consecutive Year as “Best Place to Work” for LGBT Employees
December 05 2016 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) today received a perfect
score on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation's Corporate
Equality Index - a global benchmarking tool on corporate policies
and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
(LGBT) equality and inclusion. This announcement marks the twelfth
consecutive year Dow has earned recognition on HRC’s list of “Best
Places to Work” for LGBT employees in honor of the Company’s 100%
rating.
“Dow continues to actively engage with all of our stakeholders
to advance rights and inclusion for the LGBT community,” said
Howard Ungerleider, vice chairman and chief financial officer for
Dow and executive sponsor of GLAD, Dow’s employee resource group
for LGBT and Ally Employees. “It’s both a moral and business
imperative that we create an environment where all individuals are
supported and valued. By fostering an inclusive culture both within
and beyond the Company, we’re ensuring that everyone has the
ability to unlock their true personal and professional
potential.”
Dow has offered equal benefits to same-sex partners for over a
decade and has best-in-class transgender policies and health
benefits that are aligned to the standards of the World
Professional Association for Transgender Health, a professional and
educational organization devoted to transgender health. Internally,
Dow’s LGBT employee resource group GLAD remains the largest of
eight diversity networks within the Company, comprised of more than
3,000 employee participants across the globe.
Externally, the Company has been a longstanding advocate for
state and federal legislation protecting LGBT people from policies
that seek to create nonexclusive environments. Dow has spoken out
in opposition to contentious legislation in several states,
including North Carolina, Indiana, Louisiana and Texas. At the
federal level, Dow was the first business to endorse the landmark
Equality Act that aims to establish permanent protections against
discrimination in matters of employment, housing, access to public
places, federal funding, credit, education and jury service.
Dow has also engaged heavily with peer companies and local
businesses to advocate for an inclusive workplace and society
globally. Last year, Dow was among the first companies to sign onto
the inaugural HRC Global Corporate Coalition for Equality to drive
LGBT equality around the world. Leaders across the Company continue
to lend their voices on the business and societal benefits of a
diverse and inclusive environment locally, nationally and
globally.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to
passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The
Company is driving innovations that extract value from material,
polymer, chemical and biological science 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 2015,
Dow had annual sales of nearly $49 billion and employed
approximately 49,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than
6,000 product families are manufactured at 179 sites in 35
countries across the globe. On June 1, 2016, Dow became the 100
percent owner of Dow Corning Corporation’s silicones business, a
global company with sales of greater than $4.5 billion in 2015, 25
manufacturing sites in 9 countries and approximately 10,000
employees worldwide. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The
Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless
otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found
at www.dow.com.
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