Second-wave feminism
Period of feminist activity
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| 2025 | Andrea R. Lucas became the acting chair of the EEOC. |
| February 2025 | EEOC moved to dismiss six of its own pending gender identity discrimination cases, citing President Donald Trump's executive order defining sex as binary. |
| 2023 | Karla Gilbride becomes General Counsel, serving from 2023 to 2025. |
| 2022 |
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Launched 'Our Bodies, Ourselves Today' in collaboration with the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University, creating a new website featuring health and sexuality information.
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| 2021 |
Chicana feminism
Sylvia Morales' film 'Chicana' was archived in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, recognizing its significant artistic and cultural contribution.
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| January 20 2021 | Charlotte Burrows becomes the seventeenth Chair of the EEOC under President Joe Biden's administration. |
| 2020 | During the fiscal year, the EEOC conducted over 6,000 mediations, recovering nearly half of $333.2 million in relief through mediation, conciliation, and settlement processes. |
| 2020 | During Fiscal Year 2020, the EEOC investigated discrimination charges and found 17.4% of cases to have merit, highlighting the agency's ongoing work in identifying workplace discrimination. |
| 2020 | The EEOC recovered $106 million in relief through litigation of 93 meritorious lawsuits, with 13 systemic cases accounting for $69.9 million of the total relief. These systemic cases involved discrimination with broad impacts on industries, professions, companies, or geographic locations. |
| 2020 | The Supreme Court upheld the EEOC's position on sex discrimination in the R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case. The EEOC also secured a record $535 million in recovery for workplace discrimination victims. |
| 2019 | Leadership change with Janet Dhillon becoming a Commissioner, and Keith Sonderling joining the EEOC Commission. |
| 2019 | Sharon Fast Gustafson appointed as General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| May 15 2019 | Janet Dhillon becomes the sixteenth Chair of the EEOC under President Donald Trump's administration. |
| 2018 |
Our Bodies, Ourselves
The group announced they would cease publishing new print editions and could no longer update their website due to financial pressures.
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| 2016 |
Chicana feminism
Restoration of the La Ofrenda mural begins after it was previously covered by graffiti and another mural.
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| 2015 |
Chicana feminism
Guadalupe Rosales created art installations to display her archival work outside of digital platforms, including solo exhibitions 'Echoes of a Collective Memory' and 'Legends Never Die, A Collective Memory'.
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| 2015 |
Chicana feminism
Guadalupe Rosales founded the Instagram account Veterans and Rucas (@veterans_and_rucas), which began as a way for her family to connect through Chicana/o historical and nostalgic images, eventually growing into a comprehensive digital archive of Chicana/o youth culture spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s.
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| 2015 | The Commission concluded that Title VII sex discrimination includes discrimination based on sexual orientation. |
| June 1 2015 | The U.S. Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision written by Justice Antonin Scalia, ruled that employers cannot refuse to hire an applicant motivated by avoiding religious practice accommodations. This decision upheld Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964's prohibition on religious discrimination. EEOC General Counsel David Lopez praised the ruling, highlighting its significance for religious freedom and societal diversity, and commending Samantha Elauf's courage in pursuing the case. |
| 2014 | Release of 'She's Beautiful When She's Angry', the first documentary film to comprehensively cover feminism's second wave. |
| 2014 | Proquote Film (initially Proquote Regie) is established as a successful initiative to address gender disparities in the film industry. |
| May 1 2013 | The EEOC won a landmark $240 million jury verdict in Davenport, Iowa against Hill County Farms for disability discrimination and severe abuse of 32 men with intellectual disabilities. This was the largest verdict in the federal agency's history, covering discriminatory treatment between 2007 and 2009, after 20 years of similar mistreatment. The victory received international attention and was profiled in The New York Times. |
| January 2013 | U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announces the lifting of the ban on women serving in U.S. military combat roles. |
| 2012 | EEOC expanded Title VII protections to include transgender status and gender identity, and achieved a significant reduction in charge inventory. |
| 2012 | The Commission expanded Title VII protections to transgender status and gender identity, and achieved a significant reduction in charge inventory for the second consecutive year. |
| 2011 | Judge Loretta A. Preska ruled against the EEOC in a lawsuit against Bloomberg, L.P., criticizing the agency for relying on anecdotal claims rather than hard data in an alleged pregnancy discrimination case. |
| 2011 | The Commission included 'sex-stereotyping' of lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals as a form of sex discrimination illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
| 2011 |
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Publication of the most recent edition of 'Our Bodies, Ourselves', continuing the book's legacy of providing comprehensive health information and promoting women's sexual autonomy.
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| 2010 | Multiple commissioners begin their terms: Jacqueline A. Berrien, Chai Feldblum, Jenny R. Yang, and Victoria Lipnic all start serving on the EEOC Commission. |
| 2010 | David Lopez becomes General Counsel, serving from 2010 to 2016. |
| April 7 2010 | Jacqueline A. Berrien becomes the fourteenth Chair of the EEOC during Barack Obama's presidency. |
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