Workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to corporate performance and long-term value creation. The Workplace Equity initiative encourages companies to provide transparent, data-driven disclosure on workforce composition and inclusion practices, allowing investors and stakeholders to assess whether companies are effectively managing their most valuable asset: their people. 

When As You Sow launched this initiative in 2018, workplace diversity data from corporations was largely anecdotal. Today, nearly 90% of S&P 100 companies release or have committed to release their consolidated EEO-1 (Equal Employment Opportunity) forms, compared to just 20% in 2020. This progress reflects growing investor demand for full, consistent, and comparable data to evaluate inclusion outcomes. 

Through shareholder engagement and direct dialogue, As You Sow asks companies to disclose hiring, promotion, and retention rates by gender and race and to provide at least two years of historical EEO-1 data. Transparent workforce data signals a company’s dedication to sourcing and retaining top talent, even amid polarized headlines. 

Our Workplace Equity Scorecard tracks quarterly progress across thousands of publicly traded companies, measuring the quality of their workforce disclosures and commitments to release additional data. This information helps investors identify which corporations are “walking the talk” on inclusion and which face reputational and performance setbacks by lagging behind.