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executive summary
Progress at the Fortune-Ranked Companies This year marked the sixth time the Fortune 1000 list of the largest publicly traded companies was invited to take part in the Corporate Equality Index survey. The Fortune 500 list has been invited each year since 2002. A record 277 of the Fortune 500-ranked businesses have official CEI ratings based on submitted surveys (as compared to
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263 last year), with an average rating of 78. Eighty-eight of the Fortune 500-ranked businesses achieved a 100 percent rating, with ten of the top 20 Fortune-ranked businesses at this top score. Eighty-six percent of the Fortune 500 include “sexual orientation” in their nondiscrimination policies and 50 percent include “gender identity.” The majority of the total Fortune 500 — 60 percent — offer equivalent medical benefits between spouses and partners and 19 percent offer transgender-inclusive health care benefits, including surgical procedures.
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