IPG is part of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media and has refused to do business with gun advocacy groups such as the NRA. IPG 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, Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. IPG 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. The company provides a benefits package for employees which covers travel/lodging costs for an abortion and transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. The company was a member of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, which aims to demonetize advertisements and suppress content that “vilifies” individuals based on sexual orientation and gender identity, discusses "debated social issues in a negative or partisan context" or spreads "hate speech". IPG offered unconscious bias training to all its employees. The company promoted that "Children can begin to show racial bias as young as 3 years old" in its ESG report and supports BLM causes. IPG’s subsidiary McCann works closely with anti-gun groups and IPG's former CEO Michael Roth is a signatory to CEOs For Gun Safety. CEO Philippe Krakowsky is a member of the Business Roundtable and Former CEO Michael Roth signed its 2019 Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism over traditional obligations to shareholders. The company opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. IPG opposed legislation in Iowa intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. The company opposed the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, which would prohibit teaching gender identity and sexual orientation to kids in K-3rd grade. IPG denounced various states’ legislative efforts to protect election integrity and security. The company’s CEO, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. IPG also partners with the Anti-Defamation League and other nonprofits to teach "anti-racist" parenting approaches. The company is a corporate partner of the NGLCC. IPG is also a member of the Civic Alliance, which has pushed back against voting integrity measures. For these reasons, Interpublic Group receives a High Risk rating.