45% of Americans Believe Employers Discriminate Based on Sexuality
The survey found that respondents believe the discrimination they've faced at work is intersectional.
June 11 2021 9:37 AM EDT
A new study from IBM's Institute for Business Value found that 45 percent of surveyed Americans thought their employer discriminated against people due to their sexuality.
Researchers found that the perceived discrimination was more prominent when race, gender, and sexual orientation intersected, according to the survey
Striving For Authenticity. Two out of three lesbian, gay, and bisexual respondents said they had to work harder in order to succeed at work due to some aspect of their identity. Across racial groups, lesbian, gay, and bisexual people said it was their sexual orientation that they believed was the primary motivation for the discrimination they had experienced first-hand at work.