Trump’s EEOC is expanding its crackdown on DEI by targeting women-only workplace networking and similar programs as potential illegal “reverse discrimination.”
Here’s what I told USA Today about this issue:
Women banding together to “build the relationships and visibility that have historically been handed to men is not the moral equivalent of the conduct that gave rise to the Civil Rights Act,” said Jon Hyman, who chairs the employment and labor practice at the Wickens Herzer Panza law firm.
“When the agency charged with protecting workers from discrimination starts treating informal women’s networking as its enforcement priority, it sends a message − not just a legal one, but a cultural one. And that message isn’t ‘we’re enforcing the law equally.’ It’s ‘we’re using the law as a weapon against the very communities it was designed to protect.'”
You can read the rest of the article here, including thoughts from Chai Feldblum, David Glasgow, Brian Uzzi, and Reshma Saujani.
Thanks to Jessica Guynn for including me in her story.
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