According to the results of the L’Autre Cercle x Ifop LGBT+ barometer published Thursday, 77% of employees consider their organization to be benevolent towards the LGBT+ community, but “gray areas” still persist and Again.
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In France, in 2024, six out of ten LGBT+ people are visible to their colleagues at work, an increase of ten points in six years, according to the results of the LGBT+ barometer | L’Autre Cercle x Ifop published Thursday April 25. The study, carried out among the largest nationally representative sample of LGBT+ employees ever surveyed (more than 1,000 people), reveals an improvement in the atmosphere at work regarding topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity , this climate “has never been more progressive than today.”
For example, nine out of ten employees are in favor of access to parental rights for their colleagues who have had a child via surrogacy, even if they are not the biological parent. Generally speaking, 77% of employees consider their organization to be benevolent towards the LGBT+ community.
Homophobic insults are not decreasing
This progressivism is also visible with the decline in physical violence against LGBT+ people (which went from 14% to 10% in three years), and discrimination in remuneration (16%) or recruitment (15%), which fall by two points. On the other hand, homophobic insults are not decreasing: 53% of LGBT+ employees say they have already been insulted. In 40% of cases, victims of teasing or offensive comments did not tell anyone.
The barometer also reveals “gray areas” concerning transgender and non-binary employees: nearly 35% (compared to 21% of LGBT+ employees) noted unequal treatment because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Also, more than a third of transgender and non-binary people have been attacked in their workplace, nine points more than LGBT+ employees. Added to this is the “faintness” 21% of non-LGBT+ employees face coming out from a transgender college (compared to 6% if it is a gay, bisexual or lesbian coming out).
Methodology: Ifop study for L’Autre Cercle carried out by self-administered online questionnaire from January 24 to February 20, 2024 with a nationally representative sample of 8,997 employees residing in mainland France, and from January 22 to February 14, 2024 from a sample of 43,252 employees and agents working in 83 organizations that are signatories to L’Autre Cercle’s LGBT+ Commitment Charter.
