The move, which was outlined in an email sent to Google employees on Wednesday, came in the wake of an executive order issued by President Donald Trump that was aimed in part at pressuring government contractors to scrap their DEI initiatives.
Many companies outside of the technology industry also have backed away from DEI. Those include Walt Disney Co. If the companies are found to be in violation, they could be subject to massive damages under the False Claims Act. In both the public and private sector, diversity initiatives have covered a range of practices, from anti-discrimination training and conducting pay equity studies to making efforts to recruit more members of minority groups and women as employees.
Google, which is based in Mountain View, California, has tried to hire more people from underrepresented groups for more than a decade but stepped up those efforts in after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis triggered an outcry for more social justice.
Google has made some headway since then, but the makeup of its leadership has not changed dramatically. For Hispanic people, the change was 3.
The share of women in leadership roles, meanwhile, increased from More in Business.
