HRC’s 2009 Equality Index for Gay & Lesbian Employment

The Human Rights Campaign has released its annual Equality Index rating companies on their conduct toward gay and lesbian employees. Here are the 2009 ratings (100 = meets all criterion for equality; 0 = meets none of the criterion toward equality for gay and lesbian employees):

3M Co. – 100

A.T. Kearney Inc. – 80

AAA Northern CA, NV and UT – 100

Abbott Laboratories – 80

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. – 100

Accenture Ltd. – 100

Acer Inc. – 50

Adecco North America LLC – 85

Adobe Systems Inc. – 95

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. – 80

AEGON USA Inc. – 40

Aetna Inc. – 100

Affiliated Computer Services – 60

Agilent Technologies Inc. – 100

Ahoid USA Inc. – 78

Air Products & Chemicals Inc. – 75

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Haer & Feld LLP – 100

Alaska Airlines – 100

Alcatel-Lucent – 100

Alcoa Inc. – 85

Allegheny Energy – 45

Alliant Energy Corp. – 85

Alliant Techsystems – 65

Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America – 100

Allstate Corp. – 100

ALTEL Corp. – 80

Alston & Bird LLP – 100

Amazon.com Inc. – 80

American Express Co. – 100

American Family Insurance Group – 95

American International Group Inc. – 85

American Power Conversion Corp. – 63

Ameriprise Financial Inc. – 100

Amgen Inc. – 70

AMR Corp. (American Airlines) – 100

AmTrust Bank – 83

Andrews Kurth LLP – 70

Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. – 100

Aon Corp. – 100

Apple Inc. – 100

Applied Materials Inc. – 88

Aquila – 35

Aramark Corp. – 75

Archer Daniels Midland Co. – 15

Arent Fox LLP – 100

Arnold & Porter LLP – 100

AstraZeneca PLC – 80

AT&T Inc. – 100

Austin Radiological Assn. – 53

Automatic Data Processing Inc. – 95

AutoZone Inc. – 25

Avaya Inc. – 85

Avis Budget Group Inc. – 80

Avnet Inc. – 30

Avon Products Inc. – 60

Bain & Co. Inc. – 100

Baker & Botts LLP – 80

Baker & Daniels LLP – 100

Baker & McKenzie – 75

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC – 35

Baldor Electric Co. – 20

Ball Corp. – 58

Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll LLP – 80

Bank of America Corp. – 100 Bank of New York Mellon Corp. – 100

Barclays Capital – 90

Barnes & Noble Inc. – 100

BASF Corp. – 100

Bausch & Lomb Inc. – 100

Baxter International Inc. – 80

Bayer Corp. – 80

BB&T Corp. – 48

Best Buy Corp. Inc. – 100

Bingham McCutchen LLP – 100

Black & Decker Corp. – 55

BMC Software Inc. – 100

BNSF Railway Co. – 30

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. – 100

Boeing Co. – 100

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. – 80

Borders Group Inc. – 100

Boston Consulting Group – 100

BP America Inc. – 100

Bridgestone Americas Holding Inc. – 80

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. – 100

Brinker International Inc. – 100

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. – 100

Brown Rudnick LLP – 100

Brown-Forman Corp. – 20

Bryan Cave LLP – 100

C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. – 40

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP – 95

Calpine Corp. – 48

Campbell Soup Co. – 100

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce – 95

Capital One Financial Corp. – 100

Cardinal Health – 100

Cargil Inc. – 100

Carlson Companies Inc. – 100

Carlton Fields – 90

Carmax Inc. – 100

Caterpilar Inc. – 55

CBRL Group Inc. (Cracker Barrel) – 15

CDW Corp. – 88

Cerner Corp. – 65

CH2M HILL Companies Ltd. – 80

Chadbourne & Parke LLP – 90

Chamberlin Edmonds & Associates Inc. – 68

Charles Schwab Corp. – 100

Chevron Corp. – 100

ChoicePoint Inc. – 100

Chrysler LLC – 100

Chubb Corp. – 100

CIGNA Corp. – 95

Circuit City Stores Inc. – 55

Cisco Systems Inc. – 100

Citigroup Inc. – 100

Clear Channel Communications Inc. – 100

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP – 100

Clifford Chance US LLP – 100

Clorox Co. – 100

CNA Insurance – 100

Coca-Cola Co. – 100

Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. – 100

Colgate-Palmolive Co. – 73

Comcast Corp. – 80

Comerica Inc. – 80

Compass Group USA Inc. – 65

Compuware Corp. – 93

ConAgra Foods Inc. – 90

ConocoPhilips – 60

Consolidated Edison Co. – 95

Constellation Energy Group Inc. – 100

Continental Airlines Inc. – 100

Canvergys Corp. – 80

Cooper Tire & Rubber – 33

Coors Brewing Co. – 100

Corbis Corp. – 80

Corning Inc. – 100

Costco Wholesale Corp. – 93

Covington & Burling LLP – 100

Cox Enterprises Inc. / Cox Communications Inc. – 100

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP – 100

Credit Suisse USA Inc. – 100

Crowell & Moring LLP – 95

CSX Corp. – 75

Cummins Inc. – 100

CUNA Mutual Insurance Group – 65

CVS Corp. – 90

Dana Holding Corp. – 20

Darden Restaurants – 80

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP – 85

Davis, Polk & Wardwell – 95

Dean Foods Co. – 73

Debevoise & Pimpton LLP – 100

Deere & Co. – 33

Dell Inc. – 100

Deloitte LLP – 100

Delphi Corp. – 45

Delta Air Lines Inc. – 85

Deutsche Bank – 100

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP – 100

Diageo North America – 100

Dickstein Shapiro LLP – 100

Discover Financial Services – 58

DLA Piper – 100

Dole Food Co. Inc. – 45

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc. – 83

Dominion Resources Inc. – 90

Domino's Pizza Inc. – 60

Dorsey & Whitney LLP – 100

Dow Chemical Co. – 100

Dow Jones & Co. Inc. – 30

DPR Construction Inc. – 30

Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP – 95

DTE Energy Co. – 75

Duane Morris LLP – 95

Duke Energy Corp. – 75

Dun & Bradstreet Corp. – 35

DuPont (E.I. du Pont de Nemours) – 100

Dykema Gossett P. LLC – 80

E*TRADE Financial Corp. – 93

EarthLink Inc. – 88

Eastman Kodak Co. – 100

eBay Inc. – 100

Edison International – 35

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP – 100

Electronic Arts Inc. – 100

Electronic Data Systems Corp. – 95

Eli Lily & Co. – 100

EMC Corp. – 95

Emerson Electric Co. – 45

Entergy Corp. – 95

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co. – 80

Ernst & Young LLP – 100

Estee Lauder Companies – 100

Esurance Inc. – 100

Exelon Corp. – 95

Expedia Inc. – 50

Exxon Mobil Corp. – 0

Faegre & Benson LLP – 100

Fannie Mae – 100

FedEx Corp. – 55

Fenwick & West LLP – 95

Fifth Third Bancorp – 75

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP – 40

Fish & Richardson PC – 80

Fisher Scientific International – 40

Foley & Lardner LLP – 100

Foley Hoag LLP – 100

Food Lion LLC – 95

Ford Motor Co. – 100

Franklin Resources Inc. – 50

Freddie Mac – 85

Freescale Semiconduct Inc. – 100

Fried, Frank, Haris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP – 100

Frost Brown Todd LLC – 85

Fulbright & Jaworski LLP – 85

GameStop Corp. – 100

Gannett Co. Inc. – 65

Gap Inc. – 100

Genentech Inc. – 100

General Dynamics Corp. – 40

General Electric Co. – 80

General Mills Inc. – 95

General Motors Corp. – 100

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP – 100

GlaxoSmithKline plc – 100

Global Hyatt Corp. – 100

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. – 100

Goodwin Procter LLP – 75

Google Inc. – 100

Gordon & Rees LLP – 95

Group Health Cooperative – 78

H&R Block – 65

H.E. Butt Grocery Co. – 40

H.J. Heinz Co. – 68

Hain Celestial Group Inc. – 55

Hallmark Cards Inc. – 90

Hannaford Brothers – 83

Harrah's Entertainment Inc. – 100

Harris Bankcorp Inc. – 90

Harris Interactive Inc. – 93

Harry & David Holdings Inc. – 83

Hartford Financial Services – 100

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. – 100

Hasbro Inc. – 50

Haynes and Boone LLP – 100

Health Care Service Corp. – 95

Health Net Inc. – 93

Heller Ehrman LLP – 100

Herman Miller Inc. – 100

Hershey Co. – 70

Hewitt Associates – 100

Hewlett-Packard Co. – 100

Hilton Hotels Corp. – 90

Hoffman-La Roche Inc. – 100

Hogan & Hartson LLP – 95

Holland & Knight LLP – 100

Holme Roberts & Owen LLP – 60

Home Depot Inc. – 85

Honeywell International Inc. – 100

Hospira Inc. – 100

Host Hotels & Resorts – 45

Hotels.com LP – 85

Howard & Howard Attorneys PC – 48

Howrey LLP – 100

HSBC - North America – 100

Humana Inc. – 45

Huntington Bancshares – 75

Hunton & Williams LLP – 75

Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP – 100

IKON Office Solutions – 65

Illinois Tool Works Inc. – 68

Imation Corp. – 88

IndyMac Bancorp Inc. – 100

ING North America Insurance Corp. – 100

Intel Corp. – 100

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) – 100

International Paper Co. – 70

Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. – 60

Intuit Inc. – 100

ITT Industries Inc. – 75

J.C. Penney Co. Inc. – 100

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. – 100

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. – 40

Jenner & Block LLP – 40

JetBlue Airways Corp. – 80

John Hancock Financial Services Inc. – 88

Johnson & Johnson – 100

Jones Apparel Group Inc. – 45

Kaiser Permanente – 100

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP – 85

Kaye Scholer LLP – 80

KB Home – 75

Keane Inc. – 50

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP – 95

Kellogg Co. – 60

Kenneth Cole Productions – 95

KeyCorp – 100

Kilpatrick Stockton LLP – 95

Kimberly-Clark Corp. – 100

Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group Inc. – 100

King & Spalding LLP – 95

Kirkland & Ellis LLP – 100

KLA-Tencor Corp. – 58

KPMG LLP – 100

Kraft Foods Inc. – 95

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP – 100

Kroger Co. – 75

L.L. Bean Inc. – 73

Laclede Group Inc. – 5

Land O'Lakes – 53

LaSalle Bank Corp. – 95

Latham & Watkins LLP – 100

Lauren Manufacturing Co. – 5

Lear Corp. – 20

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. – 100

Levi Strauss & Co. – 100

Lexmark International Inc. – 100

Lilian Vernon Corp. – 40

Limited Brands Inc. – 80

Lincoln National Corp. – 95

Littler Mendelson PC – 100

Liz Claiborne Inc. – 100

Lockheed Martin Corp. – 100

Lord, Bissell & Brook – 80

Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP – 80

Macy's Inc. – 100

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP – 100

Marriott International Inc. – 100

Mars Inc. – 48

Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. – 100

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. – 100

MasterCard Inc. – 100

Mattel Inc. – 93

Mayer Brown LLP – 95

McAfee Inc. – 53

McCarter & English LLP – 90

McDermott Will & Emery LLP – 100

McDonald's Corp. – 85

McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. – 80

McGuireWoods LLP – 95

McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP – 90

McKesson Corp. – 68

McKinsey & Co. Inc. – 100

MeadWestvaco Corp. – 60

Medtronic Inc. – 95

Meijer Inc. – 15

Men's Wearhouse Inc. – 50

Merck & Co. Inc. – 100

Merrill Lynch & Co. – 100

MetLife Inc. – 100

MGM Mirage – 85

Microsoft Corp. – 100

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP – 85

Miller Brewing Co. – 90

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popec PC – 100

Mirant Corp. – 45

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams – 100

Mohawk Industries Inc. – 65

Monsanto Co. – 85

Moody's Corp – 83

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP – 80

Morgan Stanley – 100

Morningstar Inc. – 58

Morrison & Foerster LLP – 100

Motorola Inc. – 100

Mutual of Omaha Insurance – 80

National City Corp. – 80

National Grid USA – 100

Nationwide – 100

NCR Corp. – 100

Nestle Purina PetCare Co. – 75

New York Life Insurance Co. – 100

New York Times Co. – 100

Newell Rubbermaid Inc. – 100

Nielsen Co. – 100

Nike Inc. – 100

Nissan North America Inc. – 50

Nixon Peabody LLP – 100

Nokia – 50

Nordstrom Inc. – 100

Nortel Networks Corp. – 85

Northeast Utilities – 65

Northern Trust Corp. – 100

Northrop Grunman Corp. – 100

Northwest Airlines Corp. – 85

Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. – 100

Office Depot Inc. – 60

Officemax Inc. – 80

O'Melveney & Myers LLP – 100

Omnicom Group – 80

Oracle Corp. – 100

Orbitz Worldwide Inc. – 100

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP – 100

Owens & Minor Inc. – 55

Owens Corning – 100

Pacific Mutual Holding Co.

Pacific Corp. – 85

Palm Management Corp. – 78

Pathmark Stores Inc. – 53

Patterson Belknap Webb & tyler LLP – 100

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP – 100

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP – 80

Pepco Holdings Inc. – 65

Pepper Hamilton LLP – 90

Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. – 100

PepsiAmericas Inc. – 95

PepsiCo Inc. – 100

Perkins & Will Group, Ltd. – 55

Perkins Coie – 100

Perot Systems Corp. – 0

Pfizer Inc. – 100

PG&E Corp. – 100

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP – 100

Pitney Bowes Inc. – 85

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. – 80

PNM Resources Inc. – 43

Polaroid Corp. – 60

Polsinelli Shalton Welte Suelthaus PC – 80

Powell Goldstein LLP – 100

PPG Industries Inc. – 45

PPL Corp. – 65

Praxair Inc. – 25

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP – 100

Principal Financial Group – 95

Procter & Gamble Co. – 85

Progress Energy Inc. – 68

Progressive Corp. – 100

Proskauer Rose LLP – 100

Prudential Financial Inc. – 100

QUALCOMM Inc. – 95

Quarles & Brady LLP – 80

Quest Diagnostics Inc. – 85

Qwest Communications International Inc. – 80

R.R. Donelly & Sons Co. – 55

RadioShack Corp. – 40

Raymond James Financial Inc. – 100

Raytheon Co. – 100

Realogy Corp. – 80

Recreational Equipment Inc. – 100

Reebok International – 68

Reed Smith LLP – 75

Reliant Energy Inc. – 75

Replacements Ltd. – 100

Reynolds American Inc. – 100

Rite Aid Corp. – 85

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP – 100

Rockwell Collins Inc. – 75

Rohm and Haas Co. – 80

Ropes & Gray LLP – 100

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. – 55

Ryder Systems Inc. – 93

Ryland Group – 30

Sabre Holdings Inc. – 100

SAFECO Corp. – 75

Safeway Inc. – 75

Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC – 65

SAP America Inc. – 90

Sara Lee Corp. – 75

Saul Ewing LLP – 68

S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. – 100

Schering-Plough Corp. – 100

Schiff Hardin LLP – 80

Scholastic Corp. – 50

Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP – 80

Seagate Technology LLC – 60

Sears Holdings Corp. – 100

Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP – 100

Selective Insurance Group – 85

Sempra Energy – 100

Severn Trent Services Inc. – 65

Seyfarth Shaw LLP – 100

Shell Oil Co. – 100

Sheppard, Mulin, Richter & Hampton LLP – 95

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP – 85

Sidley Austin LLP – 100

Sierra Health Services Inc. – 88

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. – 88

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP – 100

SLM Corp. (Sallie Mae) – 60

Sodexho Inc. – 100

Software House International – 40

Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP – 100

Southern California Edison Co. – 100

Southern Co. – 48

Southwest Airlines Co. – 90

Sprint Nextel Corp. – 100

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP – 100

SRA International Inc. – 75

Staples Inc. – 93

Starbucks Corp. – 100

Starcom MediaVest Group – 100

Starwoods Hotels & Resorts Worldwide – 100

State Farm Group – 80

State STreet Corp. – 100

Steelcase Inc. – 60

Steptoe & Johnson LLP – 85

Stinson Morrison Hacker LLP – 95

Stoel Rives LLP – 95

Subaru of America Inc. – 100

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP – 100

Sun Life Financial Inc. (U.S.) – 100

Sun Microsystems Inc. – 100

SunTrust Banks Inc. – 100

Supervalu Inc. – 100

Sutherland Asbil & Brennan LLP – 95

Symantec Corp. – 100

Target Corp. – 100

Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund – 78

Tech Data Corp. – 100

Tenet Healthcare – 35

Texas Instruments Inc. – 100

Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP – 95

Thompson Coburn LLP – 100

TIffany & Co. – 68

Time Warner Inc. – 100

TJX Companies, Inc. – 100

Toyota Financial Services Corp. – 100

Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. – 100

Toys 'R' Us Inc. – 65

Travel Impressions, Ltd. – 93

Travelers Companies Inc. – 50

Travelport Inc. – 100

Troutman Sanders LLP – 100

U.S. Bancorp – 100

U.S. Foodservice Inc. – 58

UAL Corp. (United Airlines) – 88

UBS AG – 100

Unilever – 100

Union Pacific Corp. – 58

Unisys Corp. – 70

United Business Media LLC – 100

United Parcel Services Inc. (UPS) – 100

United Technologies Corp. – 65

UnitedHealth Group Inc. – 95

University Hospitals of Cleveland – 50

Unum Group – 88

US Airways Group Inc. – 100

Verizon Communications Inc. – 70

Vertis Inc. – 30

Viacom Inc. – 100

Vinson & Elkins LLP – 100

Visa – 100

Vision Service Plan – 65

Visteon Corp. – 100

Vivendi – 35

Volkswagen of America Inc. – 100

Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP – 80

Wachovia Corp. – 100

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP – 100

Walgreen Co. – 100

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. – 40

Walt Disney Co. – 100

Washington Mutual Inc. – 100

Waste Management Inc. – 85

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP – 100

WellPoint Inc. – 95

Wells Fargo & Co. – 100

West – 95

Weyerhaeuser Co. – 75

Whirlpool Corp. – 100

White & Case LLP – 100

Whole Foods Market Inc. – 90

Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP – 80

Williams Companies Inc. – 55

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP – 100

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC – 100

Winston & Strawn LLP – 100

Wisconsin Energy Corp. – 55

Wombie Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLC – 65

WPP Group USA – 93

Wyeth – 80

Wyndham Worldwide Corp. – 100

Xcel Energy – 60

Xerox Corp. – 100

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. – 93

Yahoo! Inc. – 100

YRC Worldwide Inc. – 30

Yum! Brands Inc. – 65

Zurich North America – 65