2. FINDINGS
   4. Anti-Discrimination Measures
      1. Many employers lack written policies prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation

Employers can help make their organizations more hospitable toward lesbian and gay lawyers by making it clear that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is prohibited. Adopting written policies prohibiting such discrimination, and disseminating them within the organization, are two ways in which employers can accomplish this goal. The Surveys suggest, however, that many legal employers have not availed themselves of these opportunities.

Less than half of the random sample of respondents to the Lawyer Survey (42.3%) reported that their employers have written policies prohibiting employment discrimination against lawyers based on sexual orientation (35.9% responded “don't know/not sure”), and only slightly more than half (55.5%) of the purposive sample of lesbian and gay lawyers reported that their employers have such policies (15.6% responded “don't know/not sure”). (Lawyer Survey, Table 17.) The responses to the Employer Survey yielded similar data: a bit more than half (65 of 117, or 55.6%) of the respondent employers reported that they have such policies. (Employer Survey, Table H.)