The last of a dying breed!
For the past
decade a proposal to add sexual orientation and gender
identity to ExxonMobil's official equal employment
opportunity policy has been voted down by the oil
company's shareholders. At the most recent vote more
shareholders than ever voiced support for the protections --
but the proposal still failed.
The Human Rights
Campaign announced that 39.3% of shares voted in favor
of the new policy this year, compared to 8.2% in 2000.
Before merging with Exxon in 1999, Mobil included
sexual orientation in its equal employment
opportunity policy , but the wording was removed when
ExxonMobil was formed. Since then, support for adding sexual
orientation and gender identity to ExxonMobil's policy
has grown, but not by enough to make it official
policy. Meanwhile, 85% of Fortune 500 companies
include sexual orientation in their nondiscrimination
policies -- all Fortune 50 companies have it as part
of their official policy -- and more than 35% include
gender identity.
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