DEI Strategies (jan 1, 2000 – jan 1, 2019)

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In the 2000s and 2010s, DEI became more data-driven and widely recognized as a business priority, supported by research linking diversity to profitability and movements like #MeToo and marriage equality expanding inclusion. Advocacy efforts and corporate pledges pushed for measurable progress in workplace equity. Still, court rulings, anti-affirmative action lawsuits, and voter suppression laws weakened civil rights protections, revealing the ongoing tension between progress and resistance to DEI.

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