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What’s New

On June 3, Catalyst released Building LGBT-Inclusive Workplaces: Engaging Organizations and Individuals in Change, which found that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees in Canada face barriers at work.

The study's important findings transcend the country's borders. If LGBT employees are hampered in Canada, a country with protective human rights legislation for the LGBT population, what does that say about geographies in which such laws are not the case? The findings point up the need for all organizations to be vigilant about assuring an inclusive workplace for LGBT employees and suggest that the companies that do so will benefit. (A portion of the study utilized data from Catalyst's recent five-part series on Canada's visible minorities).

Catalyst on Capital Markets

No news is not-so-good news: the fourth Catalyst's Report to Women in Capital Markets: Benchmarking 2008, released June 22, was nothing if not emphatic about the women's lack of upward mobility. The industry added jobs at a healthy clip since 2000, but progress for women didn't keep pace. A telling example: women in 2008 held 17 percent of line positions—those critical for advancement into the highest ranks—unchanged since 2000. Catalyst did the study with Women in Capital Markets (WCM), a Toronto-based nonprofit that promotes the advancement of women in the industry's institutional and wealth-management sectors. The report includes profiles of six senior women. Previous studies were conducted in 2000, 2002, and 2005.