Airplane manufacturer Boeing has dismantled its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) department amid a conservative campaign to eradicate positive discrimination from the corporate world.
According to Bloomberg, Boeing will combine the DEI office with a human resources team focused on talent and employee experience.
A vice president within the DEI department, Sara Liang Bowen, confirmed that she had left the company in a LinkedIn post.
“It has been the privilege of my lifetime to lead Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Boeing company these past 5+ years,” she wrote on the networking site. “Our team strived every day to support the evolving brilliance and creativity of our workforce. The team achieved so much – sometimes imperfectly, never easily – and dreamed of doing much more still. All of it has been worth it. Because behind every effort there has been a person: An unheard voice, an idea waiting to bloom.”
Earlier in the year, investigative journalist Christopher F. Rufo wrote that DEI practices had “poisoned the culture” of the company, with Rufo claiming on social media that the growing backlash had put pressure on the new CEO. Anti-DEI campaigner Robby Starbuck also shared the news, having emailed Boeing’s executives on Oct. 17 about a planned exposé.
Conservatives have been tracking up anti-DEI wins in recent months.
Robby Starbuck has had an enormous amount of success in getting corporate America to walk back their DEI policies. That includes, most recently, industrial manufacturer Caterpillar as the latest company to remove its woke policies, following in the footsteps of a growing list of major corporations in recent months.
Those other companies include Ford, John Deere, Tractor Supply Club, Harley-Davidson, Lowe’s, and others.
Many on social media were glad to see the back of the DEI practices.
Others were less convinced by the proposed changes.
