The new database details the workforce demographics of some of America’s most iconic brands, including GM, Home Depot and Walmart, which have never previously disclosed such data voluntarily.
Boardrooms and corner offices at America’s largest and most powerful companies have remained predominantly white and male, while people of color – especially women of color – are clustered at the bottom levels of pay and prestige.
Those realities emerge starkly from a newly updated USA TODAY database that now captures demographics at the vast majority of Standard & Poor’s 100 firms.
