A new study shows that the majority of American companies are now considering reducing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts after President Donald Trump returns to his elliptical office.
Half of the executives surveyed, over 53%, say Trump’s recent DEI-related executive order is likely to reduce their diversity programs. According to To the Lit Ramen Delson investigation, which was released on Wednesday. Meanwhile, 61% are considering removing, reducing or reducing DEI-related languages ​​from websites, proxy statements, or other outbound communications.
In comparison, before January 20th, only 38% of respondents said they were considering reducing their DEI efforts.
Of those surveyed, 55% said they were worried about facing potential litigation related to DEI practices and programs and facing shareholder proposals or enforcement actions from the US government. I did. Still, the survey found that 49% of executives said they were not considering rolling back the company’s DEI efforts.
“Diversity has almost become a bad word,” an anonymous general adviser said in a survey that “regardless of what they are called, some initiatives that have been implemented previously can be maintained “I’ve done it,” he added. (Related: Federal judges will suspend termination of employees working on DEI from Intel agencies)
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The Trump administration has led large-scale efforts to overturn DEI policies across federal agencies and American schools. On the first day of his second term, Trump signed Presidential Order Abandoning the federal government’s “radical and wasted” diversity program. On January 22nd, the president signed another signature. Presidential Order It eliminated the “DEI preference” of federal contracts by revoking executive order 11246, which mandated positive litigation, and called for agencies to “relentlessly fight private sector discrimination.”
The Trump administration also has it It moved It eliminated public and university DEI programs and threatened to cancel federal funds for schools that were not compliant with his executive order.
A string of major US companies have begun to withdraw from DEI policies over the past year amid increasing pushbacks from consumers and investors. targetWalmart, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs.
In particular, many targeted consumers have in recent years urged companies to abandon their LGBTQ-related policies and to stop promoting LGBT Pride products. target Lost A market value of approximately $13 billion towards the end of May 2023, after facing consumer backlash against the Pride Month collection. Major retailers have since backtracked, saying they will only sell Pride Collection items online and in select stores.
Littler Mendelson investigated 347 C-Sweet executives, including CEO, Diversity Director and Justice Officer, from mid-December 2024 to mid-January, and once again between January 30th and February 7th. We investigated 340 executives.
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