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Nonprofit Quarterly: As Employers Pull Back on Public Inclusion Efforts, Accountability Matters More

August 26. 2026


Executive Director Noreen Farrell is featured in a Nonprofit Quarterly article about the importance and benefits of employers continuing to prioritize inclusion and fairness despite the Trump Administration’s threats to crackdown on DEI:

Noreen Farrell, a civil rights attorney, leader on gender justice, and executive director of Equal Rights Advocates, told NPQ that less public discourse from an organization means “there’s no longer a visible standard for anyone to be held to.”

“The real danger for women in the workplace is the slow disappearance of any shared expectation that employers are supposed to be doing this work at all,” said Farrell.

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