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		The Influence of the HRC


			In 1995, the Human Rights Campaign launched a project called Documenting Discrimination to gather information on events in which employees of companies told their stories of intolerance. The cases are broken down by regions in the United States as follows: the middle Atlantic, the Midwest, the northeast, the south, the southwest, and the west (Documenting Discrimination 2002, 3). The amount of stories included within the Documenting Discrimination project make the problem of same-sex discrimination apparent.


Although the companies of the employees are not displayed, they are still stories that include prejudicial corporations. Later on in 2002, the Human Rights Campaign launched another project called the Corporate Equality Index (C.E.I.). This survey has shown the positive progression within corporations in the United States, but more importantly, it uncovers the companies that need improvement. This is completed by using a survey given to employees. The employees rank each category in their opinion, and the surveys are returned to the HRC office. They are compiled, analyzed, and scaled to an overall percentage. Companies that score perfectly will receive a 100 percent, while companies that score the worst are given a zero (C.E.I. 2004, 2-3). By examining this document, it can be concluded that corporations in the United States are showing an increase in corporate equality for GLBT employees; however, it is also conclusive that too many companies are still not scoring high enough to be considered non-discriminatory towards employees.

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