Metadata
- Author: McKinsey & Company
- Full Title:: How the LGBTQ+ Community Fares in the Workplace
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: ✍️ Sin machirulos hay paraiso. Una charla heterofriendly sobre management
- URL:: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion/how-the-lgbtq-plus-community-fares-in-the-workplace
- Finished date:: 2023-02-15
Highlights
Their representation in corporate America, however, is much lower than these levels 4 (Exhibit 1). (View Highlight)
This underrepresentation increases the likelihood that LGBTQ+ women will feel isolated at work. With so few others like them, they are more likely to represent their entire group when they’re the only one like themselves in meetings or events. (View Highlight)
Our research shows that stress increases when a person experiences “onlyness,” or being the only one on a team or in a meeting with their given gender identity, sexual orientation, or race (View Highlight)
Compared with straight women and straight men, bisexual women are 13 and 28 percentage points, respectively, more likely to have experienced microaggressions (Exhibit 3). (View Highlight)
(People who identify as trans in our research set are roughly the same age as cisgender people, but they are much more likely to be in entry-level positions than cisgender people (View Highlight)
trans people are more likely to report having been promoted in the past year than cisgender people (25 percent versus 14 percent). (View Highlight)