A new study from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law showed that 47% of LGBTQ workers in the U.S. have experienced discrimination at some point during their careers.
The study, looked at a survey of LGBTQ workers about their experiences in the workplace in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton County decision in 2020, which granted employment protections to LGBTQ people.
Considering 46% of LGBTQ people are not out to their supervisor, and 20% are not out to any of their coworkers, the results show 47% of the LGBTQ employees say they have experienced discrimination, and 42% have experienced harassment.
The rates of discrimination are the worst for trans and nonbinary workers, with 55% of them having experienced discrimination.
Besides, 72% of respondents said that they had heard negative comments, slurs, or jokes about LGBTQ people at work at some point in their lives. And 36% had heard negative comments about the LGBTQ community within the past year.
Recently, a similar survey published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) suggested more than half (52%) of LGBTQ people in UK reported being bullied or harassed at work, in the last five years.
Read the Williams Institute study here.
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