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How many women does your employer have in management positions compared to industry peers? Are a retail chain’s Black workers as likely to be in public-facing roles as its White workers? Did a trucking company hire qualified women at the same rate it hired qualified men?

It will be much more difficult to answer these and other questions related to gender, race and ethnicity in workplaces once President Donald Trump’s U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enacts a key Project 2025 recommendation and scraps its 60-year practice of collecting workforce demographic data from employers. 

The EEOC’s Republican majority voted 2-to-1 earlier this summer to approve a rule ending the collection of this data, pending a public-comment period that has since closed. Though thousands of comments were submitted, the civil rights agency could finalize the proposal as soon as the end of this month. Few substantive changes are expected.