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Report reveals
consistent LGBT job discrimination

Report reveals
consistent LGBT job discrimination

An updated report shows continual evidence of workplace discrimination against gays and lesbians, according to the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law.

The report, which is an analysis of over 50 studies, has found that 15% to 43% of lesbian, gay, or bisexual individuals polled since the mid 1990s claim that they have experienced employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.A 1992 survey of studies reports a comparable range: 16% to 68%.

Transgender individuals reported similar figures, with 20% to 57% having faced employment discrimination based on their gender identity at some point in their professional careers.

"We can clearly document that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people are vulnerable to discrimination and to its harmful effects on earnings and jobs," coauthor M.V. Lee Badgett said in a press release.

Additional studies surveyed in this report reveal these effects, showing that gay men earn anywhere from 10% to 32% less than their heterosexual coworkers. The wage comparison between lesbians and heterosexual women was less clear across the different studies. However, they do show that lesbians consistently earn less than heterosexual or gay men. Although none of the studies conducted detailed wage and income analyses of the transgender population, smaller geographic and population samples reveal that many respondents report being unemployed, and depending on the study, 22% to 64% of employed transgender people earn less than $25,000 per year. (The Advocate)

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