Latest Diversity Headlines
All the headlines from our Diversity Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Berkshire Shareholders Reject Diversity, AI Proposals
May 7 2025 // Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on May 3 rejected a resolution requiring the company to report on risks from its subsidiaries’ race-based initiatives, one of seven proposals tied to diversity, artificial intelligence...
People Moves: California Reappoints Members to Diversity Task Force and WCIRB Governing Committee
Mar 17 2025 // Ricardo Lara California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara reappointed members Mitch Steiger and C. Bryan Little to the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau Governing Committee and reappointed...
UK Financial Watchdogs Drop Diversity and ‘Name and Shame’ Reforms
Mar 12 2025 // Britain’s top financial regulators have scrapped proposed new rules to boost diversity and inclusion in the industry, and mothballed a fresh crackdown on non-financial misconduct, citing fears of imposing unnecessary...
Proxy Adviser Glass Lewis Sticks With Diversity Guidance, Will Flag Risks
Mar 6 2025 // Proxy adviser Glass Lewis will continue to consider boardroom diversity when advising how to vote at U.S. company annual meetings, but plans to be clearer about the counter argument for critical vote recommendations to...
British Drugmaker GSK Abandons Diversity Targets Following Trump Pressure
Feb 28 2025 // British drugmaker GSK will no longer set diversity targets, it said on Thursday, as it became the latest company to scale back or abandon such goals in response to the U.S. president’s opposition to them. President...
Bank of America Scraps Diversity Goals in Latest Wall Street DEI Retreat
Feb 26 2025 // Bank of America Corp. is rolling back workplace representation targets and replacing references to diversity, joining peers in citing legal changes under the Trump administration. The bank will no longer have...
Berkshire Hathaway Removes Diversity and Inclusion From Annual Report
Feb 24 2025 // Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Saturday joined a growing list of American companies to publicly change their approach to discussing their commitment to diversity and inclusion. Berkshire’s annual report...
Which Companies Are Pulling Back on Diversity Initiatives?
Feb 14 2025 // A growing number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the Minneapolis police...
Advisory Firm ISS Urges Apple Investors to Vote Against Scrapping Diversity Policies
Feb 7 2025 // Influential proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services recommended on Friday that Apple investors vote against a proposal to consider eliminating the iPhone maker’s diversity, equity and inclusion...
Google Scraps Diversity-Based Hiring Targets
Feb 6 2025 // Alphabet’s Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, joining a slew of U.S. businesses scaling...
Trump Curtails Protections Around Diversity, LGBTQ Rights
Jan 21 2025 // The United States will recognize only two sexes, male and female, that are unchangeable, President Donald Trump ordered on Monday as he moved to quickly end a range of policies aimed at promoting racial equity and...
Amazon Is Halting Some of Its Diversity and Inclusion Programs
Jan 15 2025 // Amazon.com Inc. is halting some of its diversity and inclusion programs, a move that coincides with activist pressure on US companies to abandon efforts to build a more diverse workforce. In a memo to employees, Candi...
Pfizer Must Face Lawsuit Over Diversity Fellowship Program, Appeals Court Rules
Jan 13 2025 // A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit by a conservative group opposed to diversity initiatives in medicine that challenged a Pfizer fellowship program designed to boost the pipeline of Black, Latino and Native...
McDonald’s Retires Some Diversity Goals in Latest Corporate Retreat
Jan 6 2025 // McDonald’s Corp. is revamping its approach to diversity, equity and inclusion, becoming the latest large company to change its strategy as the once-ubiquitous goals come under pressure from conservative...
Bar Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Policy Upheld on Appeal
Dec 26 2024 // A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that the state bar association’s diversity policy of setting aside a certain number of its governance seats for members of under-represented minority groups is a legal exercise of...
Death of Nasdaq Diversity Rule Signals More Trouble for DEI
Dec 16 2024 // The message from Nasdaq as the Black Lives Matter movement exploded across the US: push for diversity – or prepare to explain. Four years later, a federal appeals court has struck down an attempt by Nasdaq’s US...
US Appeals Court Tosses Nasdaq Board Diversity Rules
Dec 13 2024 // A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that Nasdaq could not impose rules designed to increase diversity in corporate America by requiring companies listed on the exchange to have women and minority directors on their...
Walmart, World’s Biggest Retailer, Will Curb Diversity Efforts
Nov 26 2024 // Walmart Inc. is reversing course on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, joining a growing list of businesses retreating on DEI programs targeted by conservative activists. The world’s biggest retailer will...
Anti-DEI Shareholders Are Attacking Corporate America’s Diversity Programs
Aug 12 2024 // For conservative groups, losing big at company annual meetings is still winning. That’s because their growing presence at the shareholder gatherings is simultaneously disrupting management plans and generating...
You Need Diversity to Grow: Ako Founder Nnaji Talks Success Strategies
Aug 5 2024 // The future is diverse and community is key. That’s the message from Ngozi Nnaji, founder and managing partner of Ako Insurance Consultants. She started the agency in response to the growing need for the insurance...
