The Best Diversity Programs Will Survive GOP Attacks
Proven methods for improving workforce DEI — such as blind resumes and using structured interviews — should be unaffected by the legal threats.
Resume screening processes can perpetuate bias.
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After the US Supreme Court banned affirmative action in college admissions, anti-diversity activists put employers on notice that their next target was diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
In Texas and Florida, Republican governors have barred public colleges from undertaking DEI initiatives. And a group of Republican attorneys general, hailing from 13 states, threatened Fortune 100 companies with “serious legal consequences” and equated DEI programs with illegal quotas and race discrimination. It’s quite a stretch — as civil rights attorney Alphonso David writes in Fortune, racial quotas have been illegal for almost 50 years, as corporate lawyers well know.