APRIL 2013
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Non-Discrimination Policies of the Top 50 Federal
Contractors and the Top 50 Fortune 500 companies, 2011
As of January 2013, 90% of the top 50 federal contractors prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation, and 67% prohibited discrimination based on gender identity (Table 1).
Combined, the top 50 contractors represent 46.9% of all contracting dollars awarded by the federal government—over $249 billion in spending. All but one of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation (98%) as of January 2013, and
88% prohibited discrimination based on gender identity (Table 2).
The percentage of top 50 federal contractors with sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination policies has increased steadily in the recent years. The October 2011 Williams
Institute report, based on 2010 data, found that 81% of the top 50 federal contractors prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation, and 44% prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. Among the top 50 Fortune 500 companies in 2010, 96% prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation and 70% prohibited discrimination based on gender identity as of October 2011. The increases are due in part to a change in companies that ranked in the top 50 on each list from 2010 to 2011, and in part to more companies adopting these policies.
While the numbers increased for both categories of nondiscrimination policies, the bigger increase was for the companies
Companies with gender identity-inclusive policies,
2011 & 2013
70%
prohibiting gender identity discrimination. Among the top 50 federal contractors, there has been a
50% increase in the number of
44% companies with gender identity nondiscrimination policies since 2010.
2011
There has been a 26% increase in the number of top 50 Fortune 500 companies with gender identity nondiscrimination policies since 2010.
Top 50
Fortune 500
Companies
Top 50
Federal
Contractors
2013
Notably, nine contractors that ranked among the top 50 in both FY 2010 and FY 2011—L-3, BAE,
McKesson, Humana, General Electric, KBR, Lawrence Livermore National Security,
AmerisourceBergen, and Navistar—have added gender identity to their non-discrimination policies since the beginning of the 2010 fiscal year. Two companies that rank on both lists, KBR and Babcock & Wilcox, have since added sexual orientation. With the recent policy changes at these companies, two thirds of the contractors that ranked among the top 50 in 2011 now prohibit discrimination based on gender identity, and 90% of these contractors now prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.

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Similarly, eight of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies that ranked on both the 2010 and the 2011 lists—Wal-Mart, General Electric, Verizon, CVS, Kroger, AmerisourceBergen, Medco, and
Lowe’s—have added gender identity to their non-discrimination policies since 2010. These additions bring the percentage of top 50 Fortune 500 companies that prohibit gender identity discrimination from 70% to 88%.
Top 50 Federal Contractors, FY 2011
Rank Dollars
Awarded
(millions)
Sexual Orientation Gender Identity Company % of Total
Contracting
Dollars
Awarded
Lockheed Martin
Corp.
8.0%
The Boeing Company 4.1%
General Dynamics
Corp.
3.7%
Northrop Grumman
Raytheon Co.
2.8%
2.8%
United Technologies
Corp.
SAIC Inc.
L-3 Communications
Holdings, Inc.
BAE Systems PLC
Oshkosh Corp.
McKesson Corp.
Computer Sciences
Corp.
1.5%
1.4%
1.4%
1.3%
0.9%
0.9%
0.8%
Bechtel Group Inc.
URS Corp.
Huntington Ingalls
Industries Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton 0.7%
ITT Corp. 0.7%
The Veritas Capital
Fund II LP
0.7%
Humana Inc.
Health Net Inc.
Triwest Healthcare
Alliance Corp.
0.8%
0.8%
0.8%
0.6%
0.6%
0.6%
Hewlett-Packard Co. 0.6%
General Electric Co. 0.5%
0.5% Fluor Corp.
Bell Boeing Joint
Project a
0.5%
Bell Helicopter
(Textron Inc.)
The Boeing Co.
42,447
21,599
19,443
15,020
14,771
7,908
7,379
7,358
6,876
4,942
4,796
4,509
4,499
4,409
4,040
3,935
3,863
3,843
3,445
3,145
3,093
2,942
2,847
2,774
2,666
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-
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X
X
-
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X
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43
CACI International
Textron Inc.
0.5%
0.5%
Los Alamos National
Security LLC a
Bechtel Group Inc.
0.5%
University of
California
The Babcock &
Wilcox Co.
URS Corp.
KBR Inc.
Honeywell
International
0.4%
0.4%
Battelle Memorial
Institute Inc.
Harris Corp.
Alliant Techsystems
General Atomics
Technologies Corp.
The Babcock & Wilcox
Co.
Supreme Group
Holding SARL
ManTech
International Group
Coins ‘n Things Inc.
Jacobs Engineering
IBM Corp.
California Institute of
Technology
FedEx Corp.
Lawrence Livermore
National Security LLC
44
45
46
47
48
BP PLC
Dell Inc.
AmerisourceBergen
Corp.
Navistar International
Corp.
Evergreen
International Airlines
49
50
TOTAL
Computershare Ltd.
Merck & Co. Inc.
0.4%
0.4%
0.4%
0.4%
0.4%
0.4%
0.4%
0.4%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
46.9% b
2,615
2,515
2,505
2,277
2,193
2,149
2,125
2,122
2,068
2,057
2,033
1,953
1,894
1,843
1,745
1,646
1,592
1,575
1,473
1,423
1,416
1,407
1,400
1,365
1,331
249,182 b
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33 a
Contractor is a partnership that consists of two or more companies. The companies in the partnership are listed directly under the partnership name. A policy is only listed for the individual company within the partnership if the company does not appear elsewhere on this list. b
Numbers may not sum to total due to rounding.
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Table 2: Top 50 Fortune 500 Companies, 2011
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
Company
Wal-Mart Stores
Exxon Mobil
Chevron
ConocoPhillips
Fannie Mae
X
X
X
Sexual Orientation
6
7
General Electric
Berkshire Hathaway
X
X
X
12
13
14
15
16
17
General Motors
Bank of America Corp. X
Ford Motor
Hewlett-Packard
AT&T
J.P. Morgan Chase &
Co.
Citigroup
McKesson
Verizon
Communications
American International
Group
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
18 X International Business
Machines
Cardinal Health
Freddie Mac
CVS Caremark
UnitedHealth Group
Wells Fargo
X
X
X
X
X
35
36
37
Valero Energy
Kroger
Procter & Gamble
AmerisourceBergen
Costco Wholesale
Marathon Oil
Home Depot
Pfizer
Walgreen
Target
Medco Health
Solutions
Apple
Boeing
X
X
State Farm Insurance X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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X
X
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X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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Gender Identity

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39
40
41
42
43
44
Cos.
Microsoft
Dell
WellPoint
PepsiCo
United Technologies
X
Archer Daniels Midland X
Johnson & Johnson X
45
46
47
48
49
50
TOTAL
Dow Chemical
MetLife
Best Buy X
United Parcel Service X
Kraft Foods
Lowe's
X
X
X
X
49
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
44
X
X
X
X
X
X
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