While DEI is shorthand for programs that encourage equality in the workplace for women, minorities and other groups, the Equal Employment Opportunity rule prohibited federal contractors from engaging in acts of discrimination, such as refusing...
Trump’s moves came with backlash from various groups this week. “With tonight’s actions, the new administration doubled down on its plans to restrict abortion access. It also is blatantly opening up abortion providers and seekers...
Other LGBTQ+ advocates echoed Oakley, emphasizing that executive orders don’t create or change laws. “Discrimination based on sex, including discrimination against transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, remains illegal, and it cannot be legalized through this...
Instead, after his winning campaign pledge to Make America Great Again, Trump’s second-term priority is moving quickly to establish who will benefit — and who gets to be an American. “Trump and all the people...
Still female and LGBTQ+ service members and veterans are fearful of the culture Hegseth could promote that would make discrimination and harassment acceptable, said Jackii Wang, a senior legislative analyst for the National Women's Law...
But civil rights advocates said the department’s core function is to protect the rights of all students. Many who fought for LGBTQ students’ rights during the Obama administration are alarmed. The 2016 guidance on rights...
