Amanda McDermott works on a chassis for a Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck alongside TJ Bobola, right, at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn on Monday, May 15, 2023. McDerrmott and her mother Suzie Roskandich-McDermott are the only mother/daughter team working at different sections on the assembly line in a plant that's preparing to double its run rate to 150,000 vehicles annually. © Ryan Garza / USA TODAY NETWORK
(Detroit, MI) — Ford Motor Company is putting the brakes on its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. It’s the latest high-profile U.S. company to make such a move. Ford says it will no longer be participating in the annual Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index and says it will stop using quotas for minority dealerships and suppliers.
Recently, other companies like Lowe’s, Harley Davidson and Tractor Supply all said they would also stop or cut back on certain DEI efforts. The companies have cited changing social and political environments in announcing their decisions.
