The percentage of LGBTQ workers who say they are closeted at work only decreased by four percentage points since 2008.
That’s according to a new study on workplace climate for LGBTQ employees published by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, though the study had a limited sample size, The Washington Post reports.
One in five LGBTQ workers in the study reported having been told, or had co-workers imply, that they should dress in more feminine or masculine styles, according to the report. At the same time, 53% of LGBTQ workers reported hearing jokes about lesbian or gay people every so often.
And 25% of LGBTQ workers say an unwelcoming environment distracts them from their jobs.
The top reason LGBTQ workers don’t report negative comments they hear about LGBTQ people to human resources or a supervisor: They don’t think anything will be done, and they don’t want to damage relationships with their co-workers.
The data came from a sample of 804 LGBTQ respondents and 811 non-LGBTQ respondents in February and March.
