PepsiCo scored a 100 on the 2023 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, PepsiCo increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company covers transgender-related medical costs for its employees and their children and provides specific sexual orientation and gender identity-based benefits. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. PepsiCoforces 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. PepsiCo is a member of GARM. The company pledged $400 million toward BLM and related causes and matches employee donations to Planned Parenthood. PepsiCo is a corporate partner of the HRC, a founding member of PGLE, and requires unconscious bias training for all its employees. The company is a member of the Business Coalition for the Equality Act, supports transgender participation in girls' sports, and federalized voting systems. PepsiCo is a signatory of the Business Roundtable's 2019 Statement on the Purpose of Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism. The company is committed to carbon neutrality by 2040 and lobbies in an ideological manner. PepsiCo opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. PepsiCo is a member of the MCCA, indicating its focus on recruiting, retaining, and promoting employees based on race. For these reasons, PepsiCo receives a High Risk rating.