How activist shareholders are making the business case for abortion access
Rhia Ventures’s Shelley Alpern explains how the nonprofit is encouraging companies to look at the ways abortion restrictions will impact their employees—and their bottom line.
Tucked into Citigroup’s 2022 proxy statement, released ahead of its annual shareholder meeting in April, was a list of measures the company implemented over the past year to attract and retain employees: pay equity initiatives, expanded parental leave, and mental wellness and sabbatical programs to prevent burnout. There was something else, too: Citi had also begun providing travel benefits to employees who need to go out of state to find an abortion provider.