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Melissa Hallman
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CNN tells its paid subscribers, "DEI isn't dead. It's just called something else now."
Walmart, Ford and other companies are making changes to their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in response to online pressure, legal threats and customers opposed to the initiatives.
But activists are overstating the surface-level changes many companies are making to get rid of the heat, a CNN review of company policies and interviews with consultants and DEI proponents found. DEI, while under harsh scrutiny from critics who say it’s “reverse discrimination,” is alive and well in corporate America.
Nearly all the largest companies in America still say they are committed to promoting DEI. Few companies have scrapped their DEI efforts entirely, and only a small number have made any changes at all. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that opposes DEI, found last month that 486 of the Fortune 500 companies still have a statement or corporate commitment to DEI on their websites.
“DEI isn’t going away. It’s just changing,” said J. Danielle Carr, the chief officer of inclusion at Lowenstein Sandler and president of the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals. The organization found that just 14 of the Fortune 500 companies made any public changes to their DEI teams or programs this year.
“The modifications that these companies have incorporated were not major overhauls of the work, and the commitment to focusing on the core components of DEI work remained intact,” Carr said.
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9:16 AM · Dec 17, 2024
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