“What is DEI? Market Signals of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” analyzes the reporting metrics used by 21 influential organizations to reveal both common core understandings of DEI and significant differences in how DEI is conceptualized, measured, and managed. 

The Excel spreadsheet of the mapping can be accessed here. We welcome additions, comments, and corrections to this mapping. To suggest a framework that is missing from the mapping, please use this Google Form.

To make other suggestions for the mapping and analysis, contact us at info@rightscolab.org. 

Errata:

The metric “Turnover and absenteeism: The company measures and addresses employee turnover and absenteeism by sex,” as part of the World Benchmarking Alliance’s (WBA) Gender Benchmark framework (row 403) is also erroneously under the WBA’s Social Transformation Baseline Assessment (row 385). Therefore the correct total number of metrics within the Recruitment/Retention/Promotion Rates is 87 rather than 88 and the total number of metrics that are gender-specific is 127 rather than 128. Correcting for this error results in a new percentage of 20.3% metrics belonging to the Recruitment/Retention/Promotion Rates theme and 29.7% for gender, as well as minor changes to Figures 3, 4, 9, and 10. 

In 2025 we will produce a new report based upon an update and expansion of the 2022 tracker. The revised tracker brings an additional 15 publicly available frameworks and 249 metrics.

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