Google, Meta and Apple are among nearly 70 companies filing a brief in support of affirmative action programs being challenged at Harvard
A Harvard Crimson flag waves in the wind during the Ivy League Tournament championship college lacrosse game between the Pennsylvania Quakers and the Yale Bulldogs on May 8, 2022.lphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc. and Apple Inc. are among nearly 70 companies filing a brief with the US Supreme Court in support of affirmative action programs being challenged at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
This time, however, businesses risk inflaming a conservative backlash against companies taking progressive stances. , the plaintiffs say affirmative action not only hurts white applicants, but amounts to an “anti-Asian penalty,” too. Yet, the environment has changed considerably in the six years since the Supreme Court last ruled in an affirmative action case.Shareholders are pushing companies to disclose racial and gender workforce data, said Heidi Welsh, executive director of Sustainable Investments Institute, an institutional investor research group. A new, separate push focuses on publishing racial justice commitments, she said.
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