BET: The EEOC Plans to Stop Collecting Race and Gender Data in the Workforce

May 20. 2026

Policy Director & Deputy Legal Director Jessica Ramey Stender is featured in a BET article about the EEOC’s decision to stop collecting workforce data that helps identify discrimination:

“Without this data, the government, watchdogs, and advocates will not be able to identify promotion disparities, job segregation, and other barriers to equal opportunity at work,” said Jessica Ramey Stender, Policy Director & Deputy Legal Director of Equal Rights Advocates to the outlet [Bloomberg Law]. “We cannot change what we cannot measure.”

Read the article.