MS Now: MAGA-fueled EEOC votes to end collection of corporate data on race and gender

July 22. 2026

An MS Now article about the Trump Administration’s efforts to rescind the EEOC’s 60-year practice of collecting workplace demographic data that identify discrimination features Executive Director Noreen Farrell:

Noreen Farrell, executive director of the pro-woman workplace advocacy group Equal Rights Advocates, told me last year that the administration’s efforts to undermine the collection of workplace data — at the time, at the Bureau of Labor Statistics — risked turning this data into a “tool of sexism.” And the same applies now with the EEOC.

“First they dismantled workplace protections. Then they gutted DEI programs. Now, as women abandon careers in record numbers, they want to stop counting,” she said. “This is what systematic discrimination looks like in 2025.”

Read the article.