Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
When it comes to racial equity, some Fortune 1000 companies are walking the walk
Diversity & Inclusion
January 5, 2021 – Just one-third of Fortune 1000 companies made public statements on racial equity between George Floyd’s killing in May and the end of October. Of the companies that spoke out, over 90 percent followed up with a commitment to promote equity, whether inside the organization or beyond it.
To read the article, see “It’s time for a new approach to racial equity,” December 2, 2020.
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Visual form
Three-panel dot-matrix comparison chart.
Layout / body structure
The chart is a single row of three large circular dot arrays. Read it left to right from public statements, to external commitments, to internal commitments, taking the headline percentage above each circle together with the explanatory caption beneath it.
What is being compared
The chart compares three types of Fortune 1000 corporate response after the George Floyd protests: making statements in support of racial justice, making external commitments tied to racial equity, and making internal commitments tied to diversity and inclusion. It is a response-type comparison over the same May 25 to October 31, 2020 period.
Measurement system
The measurement is percent of the top 1,000 US companies. Each circle functions as a 100-dot matrix, with blue dots representing the share of companies in that category and gray dots representing the remainder.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Three large circular grids dominate the page, each topped by a bold percentage: 32 percent, 22 percent, and 18 percent. The blue dots fill the lower portion of each circle in different amounts, while the captions under the circles explain the substance of the statements, external commitments, and internal commitments.
Main takeaway from the visual
Many companies made statements after the protests, but fewer followed through with external or internal commitments, so the visible intensity drops from left to right. The shrinking number of blue dots across the three circles makes the difference between speaking up and acting more concretely easy to see.
Key standout values or extremes
The highest figure is 32 percent for companies that made statements in support of racial justice. That falls to 22 percent for companies making external commitments and 18 percent for companies making internal commitments, making internal follow-through the smallest of the three displayed responses.
Controls / sequence, when applicable
This is a static chart image with no in-chart controls to operate.
Companion media, when applicable
There is no separate companion audio or video; the chart image is the full visual on this page.