Overview
- EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas called the allegations unlawful discrimination and urged applicants and employees to come forward.
- Jacob Savage’s Compact essay has drawn millions of views, including more than 11 million on X according to coverage, propelling a national debate.
- Cited data include white men falling from 48% of lower-level TV writers in 2011 to 11.9% in 2024, and from 39% to 18% of Harvard humanities tenure-track roles between 2014 and 2023.
- Company reports highlighted shifts such as Condé Nast’s 2022 hires being 75% women and 49% white, and The Atlantic reporting 71% women and 46% non-white among hires from July 2023 to June 2024.
- Anonymous hiring editors described deliberate preferences for diversity candidates and, in some cases, explicit de-prioritization of white men, with conservative figures amplifying calls for legal challenges.