Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

American  

noun

U.S. Government.

1. an independent federal agency created under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, to police a program Equal Employment Opportunity to eliminate discrimination in employment based on race, color, age, sex, national origin, religion, or mental or physical disability. EEOC

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Cultural  

1. An agency established by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to investigate racial and sexual discrimination. The National Organization for Women (NOW) was organized in the 1960s when the EEOC failed to act upon the Civil Rights Act's sexual discrimination clause.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The other two members are the chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Andrea Lucas, and acting director of the Office of Government Ethics, Keith Sonderling.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The committee will include the assistant to the president for economic policy, the chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the director of the Office of Government Ethics, the memo said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

He pointed to an informal opinion about video resumes from the federal government’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2010.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

For example, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has launched a campaign to encourage white men to bring workplace discrimination lawsuits.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026

I ask your help to end the backlog at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

From State of the Union Address by William Jefferson Clinton

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