The heat`s on Corporate America to reveal racial diversity data
(WorldNews Business)

BOSTON/LONDON — American companies are coming under increasing pressure from investors to publicly disclose information about diversity among employees in the wake of nationwide protests against racial discrimination. Many executives have pledged to champion equality in response to the Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the United States and beyond. The goal of global investors increasingly focused on social and governance issues is to gain a common metric on racial diversity to compare companies and hold them to account on their pledges, building on a drive to improve gender equality. The good news, they say, is that U.S. firms with more than 100 employees already gather such...