"In December 2025, Andrea Lucas, the chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, invited white men to file more sex- and race-based discrimination complaints against their employers. "Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws. Contact the @USEEOC as soon as possible," she wrote in a post on X."
"In February 2026, the EEOC began to investigate Nike on what the agency said was suspicion of discrimination against white workers. Both initiatives followed the EEOC's March 2025 characterization of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, or DEI, as potentially discriminatory against white men. The EEOC characterization falls within the Trump administration's larger pattern of calling DEI " illegal discrimination." At the Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts, we have done extensive research on who files discrimination charges with the EEOC."
In December 2025 Andrea Lucas, chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, invited white men to file sex- and race-based discrimination complaints and to contact the EEOC about claims under federal civil rights laws. In February 2026 the EEOC opened an investigation of Nike on suspicion of discrimination against white workers. Both actions followed a March 2025 EEOC characterization of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts as potentially discriminatory against white men, consistent with a Trump administration pattern labeling DEI illegal discrimination. The Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts obtained EEOC charge records from 2012–2016 and revisited research on who files discrimination charges.
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