How Conservatives Are Trying to Roll Back DEI in Corporate America
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US companies with diversity, equity and inclusion programs are under growing pressure from conservatives to roll them back. An important battleground is the company annual meeting.
Campaign groups often use shareholder proposals, otherwise known as proxy votes, to try to gain leverage over company boards. Religious groups, abortion-rights activists, environmentalists and corporate governance campaigners file hundreds of them each year in the US.