Facing pressure from investors to show progress on diversity issues, more companies are publicizing workforce representation data they already report confidentially to the U.S. government.
Since 1966, private companies with 100 or more employees have to disclose to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission how many men and women of different ethnicities they employ across 10 job categories, such as “laborers and helpers,” “professionals” and “executive/senior level officials.” Aggregated data on industries and major…