TJX Companies Inc. owns over 30 TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and Homegoods stores in Washington state. The Fortune 100 corporation is not shy about its enthusiasm for women in its workforce.
The homepage of TJX’s website contains a prominent link to their “Women in our Workplace” webpage. [2/13/21 update: The link web formerly provided to that webpage became broken sometime after we sent this post to TJX Inc. It seems the page no longer exists on their site. Via the Wayback Machine Internet Archive we are able to view the “Women in our Workplace” page.]
“We believe our efforts to recruit and retain women are an important part of our workplace diversity.”
“Women In our Workplace” webpage, TJX.com
The webpage states that among employees of TJX Companies Inc., women earned 78% of the promotions and make up 52% of its leadership, 66% of its managers, and 78% of its workforce. With numbers like these, their inclusion and diversity efforts might be aided by outreaching more to men.
On the corporation’s webpage explaining their commitment to the military, the featured employee, Tatjana, is also a woman.
“We are also proud that six of the 13 members of our Board of Directors are women as of October 2020.”
“Embracing Inclusion and Diversity” webpage, TJX Companies Inc.
TJX Companies Inc., the leading off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the U.S. and worldwide, was ranked 80 in the 2020 Fortune 500 company listings. [Source: TJX.com]
Male employees at TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and Homegoods stores may wonder how their employer’s focus on female employees might conflict with being judged without regard to their sex when promotions are awarded. Male-owned suppliers seeking to do business with TJX Companies may wonder whether their focus on female-owned suppliers will conflict with being evaluated without regard to their sex in consideration for contracts. [2/13/21 update: The link became broken shortly after we sent this post to TJX Inc. It seems the page no longer exists on their site. Via the Wayback Machine Internet Archive, view it here.]
WIBM emailed this post to the media contacts at TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and Homegoods, asking if they wanted to comment. We received no response as of six days later. We resent the invitation and again received no response. However, TJX Inc. staff seems to have received that email. Learn more in this follow-up piece we published: