CNA Financial scored a 100 out of 100 on the 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, CNA Financial increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company provides a benefits package for employees which covers transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. CNA Financial forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. CNA Financial provides inclusive leadership training for its employees. CNA Insurance (a subsidiary of CNA Financial) opposed the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, which would prohibit teaching gender identity and sexual orientation to kids in K-3rd grade. The company has signed the Equality Act and was part of the Freedom for All Americans coalition, which advocated for federal legislation that would overrule state laws designed to protect girls' sports and similar laws. CNA Insurance opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. CNA Insurance also opposed legislation in Iowa intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. The company's former CEO, Dino E. Robusto, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. CNA Financial is a copper sponsor of Out & Equal and a corporate partner of the NGLCC. For these reasons, CNA Financial receives a High Risk rating.