For the third consecutive year, Raytheon Company has achieved a 100 percent score on the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) Corporate Equality Index (CEI). The HRC, the nation's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) rights organization, rates American companies annually on how they treat GLBT employees, consumers and investors.
In 2005, Raytheon became the first defense and aerospace company to achieve a 100 percent score on the CEI and has continued to lead the industry in fostering a comfortable workplace environment where all employees can achieve maximum growth and productivity regardless of sexual orientation, gender expression and/or gender identity.
"We are proud to have once again achieved a perfect score on the Corporate Equality Index, since it directly reflects the strides that our company has made to build a culture that recognizes, respects and leverages individual and cultural differences," said Hayward Bell, Raytheon's chief diversity officer. "Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is our undeniable pathway to success for individuals and the company – for everyone, every day and everywhere."
As part of the criteria for the CEI, companies were rated on a scale of zero to 100 percent on a variety of measures that included: health insurance coverage to employees' same-sex domestic partners or the provision of cash compensation to employees to purchase health insurance for a domestic partner on their own; official recognition and support of a GLBT employee resource group; and diversity training that includes sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression in the workplace.
Raytheon Company, with 2006 sales of $20.3 billion, is a technology leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 85 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in
