Big-Name Federal Contractors Dodge DOL Diversity Data Release

The vast majority of companies that accept the most taxpayer dollars opposed the public release of past employee diversity statistics, and those that did reveal those numbers only marginally increased executive diversity, according to data obtained by Bloomberg Law.

Among the 81 highest-earning contractors who consented to their 2016-2020 diversity data being released through the US Labor Department, the number of women in executive positions grew from about 24% to 31% in that period. Among the same contractors and during the same period, the number of minorities in executive positions grew from about 15% to 19%.

Thousands of contractors collect ...